On March 8th, CRIPDES, Share, Centro Romero of Chicago and Causa Oregon held a press conference and rally to launch the Residency Now campaign in El Salvador. The Residency Now campaign is aimed at getting Permanent Residency status for the approximately 64,000 Hondurans, 212,000 Salvadorans, and 3,000 Nicaraguans who have been awarded Temporary Protective Status […]
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The annual CRIPDES Assembly took place on June 26th at the historic Divina Providencia Hospital complex where Monseñor Romero lived until his murder in 1990. More than 250 community leaders from San Vicente, Chalatenango, La Libertad, Northern San Salvador, Cabanas and Cuscatlán attended the assembly. The national junta directiva of CRIPDES opened the assembly by […]
Message from CRIPDES National Board Companeros and Companeras of the CRIPDES board, delegates from the five regions of CRIPDES, Companeros from popular organizations and friends from solidarity and cooperation organizations, please receive the most fraternal and communal greeting from the Association for the Development of El Salvador CRIPDES. In July 2009, CRIPDES celebrates 25 […]
POLITICAL VERDICT, PARTIAL VICTORY CRIPDES and CORDES inform you: Thursday the 19th of July around 8:30 pm, the Special Penal Tribune announced, through representation by the Judges Gloria de la Paz Lizama and Sandra Chicas, a verdict that does not leave any doubt about the political decisions of the ARENA government in the treatment […]
Press Release: Recently Acquitted Political Prisoner Assassinated. June 10, 2008. Salvadoran and International Groups Call for Investigation into Escalating Political Killings in El Salvador Public Statement re: Political Assassinations in El Salvador. June 2, 2008. Statement with more than 200 signers, denouncing killing of Hector Ventura and other politically motivated killings in El […]
Demonstration and Public Hearing for the 14 people captured in Suchitoto, including CRIPDES national leaders The 14 detainees and CRIPDES leaders were tried today in a Special Tribunal for Acts of Terrorism. Judge Ana Lucila Fuentes de Paz dismissed the charges for 1 detainee, and decreed “Preventative Detention” for 3 months for the other 13, […]
CRIPDES LEADERS STILL BEING HELD IN JAIL, DETAILS ON REPRESSION OF SUCHITOTO PROTEST We want to share more information on the violent and arbitrary arrest and detention of CRIPDES leaders travelling to a demonstration this morning, and details of repression against protesters in the municipality of Suchitoto. The CRIPDES leaders arrested were taken […]
July 2, 2007 PROTEST IN SUCHITOTO, CRIPDES LEADERS CAPTURED BY POLICE We want to share some preliminary information about events that have taken place so far this morning that have led to the arbitrary arrest and continuing detention of CRIPDES leaders by the National Civilian Police (PNC) in the municipality of Suchitoto, Province of […]
Sister Cities is proud to work directly with the Association for the Development of El Salvador (CRIPDES) the largest rural organization in the country and a leader in the Salvadoran social movement. Formerly the Christian Committee of the Displaced, CRIPDES was founded in 1984 to support people displaced by the Salvadoran civil war as they […]