(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) As previously reported, the CRIPDES San Vicente team has continued to work to help families in the area during the COVID19 pandemic. The acting coordinator, Marixa Amaya, shares that on Tuesday and Wednesday food was distributed among some families identified in the census made by the CRIPDES in coordination with local […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Until April 21, Chalatenango is the only department with no positive cases of CORONAVIRUS. Since quarantine was decreed on March 21, 90% of the population has respected it, staying home, and going out only for necessary food or health issues. Due to the bonus that the government assigned to low-income families, […]
Last Friday, president Nayib Bukele established a sanitary cordon in La Libertad. People were not allowed to leave their houses not even to purchase food. This was criticized by several people: The lawyer and former Minister of Security, Francisco Bertrand Galindo, wrote that if the siege in La Libertad is true, it is “illegal, […]
Around 1 AM this morning the Legislative Assembly ended their session. There were plans to approve a new decree for the current pandemic after many Human Rights abuses have been reported at national and international level. #Teleprensa33 | #ElSalvadorEnCuarentena Distintas organizaciones sociales presentaron un comunicado, dirigido hacia el presidente @nayibbukele y donde le hacen […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) The members of the Guajoyo security committee who were arrested on Saturday, April 11, are now free. The young men were on their shifts at the entrance of the community, controlling access and doing sanitation work when they were captured by the police. All group members work voluntarily rotating during part […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Today the Legislative Assembly must analyze whether the restriction of rights during the pandemic is extended, as requested by President Nayib Bukele. Last Sunday they decided to extend it just for four days. The journalist Fernando Romero (whom the president previously excluded from an event) explains the reforms that various groups […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) The vice president of the community board (JD) in Chilama 2, Juan Menjivar, tells us that the community is paralyzed during this quarantine. Some inhabitants received the $300 USD bonus from the government, but not all of them. People that usually go out to sell vegetables are staying home but are getting […]
One thing you can do immediately to protect the most vulnerable immigrants and to protect us all. We face a dire threat from the Covid-19 pandemic gathering speed rapidly. There is no over-estimating the severity and extent of the danger. All of us are at risk. The most vulnerable sectors of our population are at […]
Last night, president Bukele addressed the nation and declared that there will be 15 more days of quarantine for all Salvadorans. Quarantine was officially declared on March 21st. Nayib Bukele also urged police and military forces to be tougher on people violating quarantine: “I have instructed them to be tougher on people on the […]
We keep trying to communicate with the community boards of our sistered communities to learn how everything is unfolding during the COVID19 pandemic. Our friends in El Papaturro state that: The community board handed flyers and a mask in each household, so they have one to go shopping their groceries. They feel optimistic because […]