Tag Archives: CRISTOSAL

Recursos para reportar violaciones a DDHH durante el régimen de excepción

Dado el temor que sienten muchas personas, especialmente jóvenes, en las zonas rurales en las que trabaja CRIPDES, hemos creado esta compilación de recursos para facilitarles el reporte de violaciones a Derechos Humanos que puedan sufrir durante la extensión del régimen de excepción implementado por el gobierno salvadoreño.   TELÉFONOS PROCURADURÍA PARA LA DEFENSA DE […]

Mothers search en masse for their missing children

(ARTICULO DE FACTUM DISPONIBLE EN ESPAÑOL AQUÍ) An article written by Gerson Najera   Relatives and friends of victims of forced disappearance have gathered in a block to demand respect and an immediate response from the Government to the reports of disappearances. “I ask the president (Nayib Bukele) to be empathic. What if it was […]

Two financial blows from the Salvadoran Government

CONTEXT The U.S. Embassy recently approved funding for organizations working in the region, through USAID. The relationship of the Salvadoran government and the US Government is not “solid”, as stated by the Chargé d’ affaires ad Interim Jean Manes: “We have investments in different projects. USAID support is in the hundreds of millions in different […]

Mozote files – Defense Minister says they will not comply with a judicial order that, according to him, has no legal basis

FACTUM reports: The Minister of National Defense, Francis Merino Monroy, asked the magistrates of the Supreme Court of Justice to stop the inspection of military archives scheduled for next Monday, September 21, as part of the proceedings ordered by a judge in the criminal case for the massacre that occurred in El Mozote in 1981. […]

A visitor from Bangor / Una visitante de Bangor

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO)   Last december, the Bangor committee (sistered with Carasque) brought a delegation and one of its participants shares her perspective from the trip with us:   I traveled to El Salvador in December, 2019 with a Sister Cities delegation. This was my first trip to the country and my first trip with […]

Bangor delegation on migration in the salvadoran community Carasque

Joanie Ellis, from PICA, wrote the following after visiting Carasque, a community in the department of Chalatenango in El Salvador. We hope you enjoy this material, included in their June newsletter.   Leaving Carasque Joanie Ellis   In my dream we are riding on a bus filled with many Caresqueños. Laughing, singing, all in high […]