(PUEDE LEER EL COMUNICADO EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Social organizations reject the actions of the Legislative Assembly, as they put the peace and well-being of Salvadorans at risk We, representatives of social organizations with a membership of thousands of compatriots, condemn the dismissal of the magistrates of the Constitutional Chamber and the Attorney General by […]
Jose Isabel “Chabelo” Morales Lopez, 37, is a small farmer (campesino), whose family is part of Honduras’agricultural communities in the Aguán Valley in the heart of the African palm-producing region of the northern coast. He has been in prison for more than 5 years for a crime that he did not commit. His arrest and […]
Today, June 28th, 2013 about 125 folks from the Movement of Popular Resistance and solidarity organizations gathered outside the Honduran embassy in San Salvador to commemorate the 4th anniversary of the military coup in Honduras and to demand that the U.S. government cut military aid to Honduras, which has been increasing each year since the […]
March 18, 2012 Michael Ring, for the US-El Salvador Sister Cities Honduras Solidarity Committee Thanks to the advocacy work of people around the country, including many in our own network, 94 Congresspeople signed on to a letter sponsored by Ill. Rep Jan Schakowsky calling for the cutting of US military aid to Honduras because of […]
Given: 1- The recent escalation of violence by the de facto government against the Honduran people, 2- The US Embassy’s attempt to blame the violence on the civic organizations who are expressing their rights to call for democracy, justice and fairness 3- The near silence (and/or distortion of events) in the US media on this […]
Post-coup repression in Honduras reached a new low last week with the targeting of a concert of the band Café Guancasco, a musical favorite of the coup resistance movement. It took place on September 15, anniversary of the independence of Central America from the Spanish Empire. For the second year in a row, the holiday […]
All of us need to stay updated about the coup in Honduras. Check out the following resources about the Coup and then TAKE ACTION. To see a graphic history of the coup in Honduras, take a look at: The Honduran Coup: A Graphic History To read about the U.S. Position on […]
Along with our partners in CRIPDES, we are outraged about the current situation in Honduras and the recent fraudulent elections. Sister Cities members, who accompanied the Salvadoran elections process last year, know that elections take months of planning and intense observation in order to be free and fair. The Honduran elections on the other hand, […]
CRIPDES is receiving information daily from their colleagues in the Honduran social movement, who have been constantly moving around the country because of persecution. As a demonstration of their support for the Salvadoran people, CRIPDES and the MPR-12 are organizing hundreds of people to march at two areas of the Honduran border of El Salvador, […]