Fabian Salvioli, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees recently visited El Salvador and asked to remove the name of Col. Jose Domingo Monterrosa from the Infantry Brigade in the department of San Miguel. According to the UN Truth Commision, Monterrosa was the commander of the Atlacatl Batallion that […]
On Wednesday, March 26th, 11 young community leaders, including 2 Sister City scholarship students – Geovanni and Emerson – were sentenced to 4 years in prison for “illicit organization,” which is another way of accusing them of being gang members. While Geovany and Emerson where well known within Sister Cities and other international organizations because of […]
www.Cispes.org May 17, 2013 Today, the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court ruled that the appointments of David Munguía Payés as Minister of Public Security and Justice, and Francisco Ramón Salinas as Director of the National Civil Police (PNC), violated the Constitution of El Salvador. Payés and Salinas are both former military generals who retired […]
On November 20, twenty-four organizations from the U.S. and Canada sent a letter to the San Salvador City Council and to the Office of the President of El Salvador in which they denounced and demanded justice in the case of violent evictions of vendors executed by the Mayor of San Salvador, Norman Quijano. The page […]
Social Movement Organizations File Lawsuit Against Unconstitutional Appointments of Ex-Generals On February 21, a group of Salvadoran human rights organizations submittted a lawsuit alleging that the recent appointments of two former generals to the posts of Minister of Justice and Public Safety, and CEO of the National Police are unconsitutional. During the rally and press […]
January 17, 2012 From the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) On Monday morning, January 16, crowds gathered in the small community of El Mozote to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Peace Accords that ended El Salvador´s 12-year-long civil war. El Mozote, in the rural department of Morazán, is the […]
On June 28th, President Mauricio Funes released a statement condemning the murder of environmental activist Juan Francisco Duran Ayala and reiterating his commitment not to allow any mining projects to start in El Salvador. Since the murder of Juan Francisco, the fourth anti-mining activist to be assassinated, pressure on the Attorney General and President to […]
Visits in June and July from leaders representing the Honduran coup d’etat and resistance movement surrounded Honduras’s reincorporation to the Integration System of Central America (SICA) and sparked controversy among Salvadorans. Coup Mastermind Comes to San Salvador On June 22, coup mastermind Roberto Micheletti visited El Salvador, reportedly saying his presence “was not to divide, […]
CRIPDES Participates in First Economic and Social Council Representatives from El Salvador’s social movement, business sector and officials from Mauricio Funes’s government participated in the inauguration of El Salvador’s first Economic and Social Council (CES) on September 4th. The idea of the Economic and Social Council was a part of the 1992 Peace Accords that […]
In his first two weeks in office, Mauricio Funes and his government ministries have begun to expose the results of 20 years of ARENA governing and look for ways to respond to that corruption. Phantom Salaries and Overspending Uncovered The FMLN has found an alarming number of irregularities in the former ARENA government ministries. […]