The first case of COVID19 reported in Guatemala was a person who was travelling with 5 Salvadorans, as reported by Guatemalan president Alejandro Giammattei. Nevertheless, no cases have been reported by the Salvadoran government as of today. Besides closing the airport to commercial flights, declaring the first regime of exception after the war, Nayib Bukele […]
Joan Ellis and Dennis Chinoy, from the Bangor Committee, have recently published their thoughts on migration in the “Bangor Daily News”. Joan wrote: Many young Salvadoran males ended up in large cities like Los Angeles where, alone and vulnerable, they became ripe targets for gang recruitment. After the widespread 1992 riots in Los Angeles in […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Thanks to the support of AIETI, the women’s table of CRIPDES has been able to get together once again in the central office after two years. This meeting enabled them to analyze all the work that has been done in the regional offices during all this time, despite the lack of […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) El Papaturro is a small community repopulated in 1990, located in the municipality of Suchitoto. Most of its inhabitants are originally from Santa Marta, Cabañas, one of the most affected zones during the armed conflict. The community of El Papaturro is part of the Sister Cities network. Since 1994, this community […]
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 […]
By Vic Hinterlang Austin-Guajoyo Committee Following up on our trip last May to Guajoyo, Austin’s Salvadoran Sister City, (See Austin-Guajoyo Sister City Project, May 31, 2014), Jennifer Long and I decided to return to El Salvador as International Observers of the February 2nd Presidential Election. Three parties, the FMLN, which currently holds the presidency in the […]
The results of water samples taken by the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (MARN), which were collected two thousand five hundred meters from the bed of the San Sebastian River, in the area of the hamlet of El Comercio in Santa Rosa de Lima, confirmed the presence of cyanide and iron, among other […]
Turning ‘communists’ into ‘terrorists’ in El Salvador August 2, 2007 By Dennis Chinoy Back in the eighties, when the U.S. armed and funded the Salvadoran military to fight a proxy war against communism, delegations of visiting Americans to the embassy were commonplace. Appalled at the latest round of human rights abuses perpetrated by the army […]
