Tag Archives: News from El Salvador

Tony Saca and Ana Ligia de Saca – Preliminary Hearing

The District Attorney’s ofice requested today to the first civil chamber that former ARENA president Antonio Saca and his wife return 4,559,621.65 US Dollars that they have not been able to justify. This money seems to have been laundered through their personal accounts and through their radio corporation SAMIX. (Source)   Ana Ligia de Saca […]

Quién es la Fundación Heritage / Who is the Heritage Foundation

(IN ENGLISH BELOW)   En noviembre de 2019, el periodico “The Guardian” publicó un artículo titulado “Cómo los tanques de pensamiento de la derecha radical cambiaron al partido conservador“. Este artículo habla del rol que estos tanques de pensamiento (como FUSADES) tuvo en la separación del Reino Unido y la Unión Europea, lo que ahora […]

Girls should not be touched

The magistrates of the First Criminal Chamber concluded that Judge Eduardo Jaime Escalante did not commit the crime of sexual assault, despite the fact that it was documented the touching of the genital area of ​​a child under 10 years old, because the facts indicated it took place on a “public road”, briefly, without violence […]

Water and migration, the failed subjects of the popular president Bukele

(Read the original article in spanish here)   The Salvadoran population points out two issues that should be a priority for President Nayib Bukele: serving migrant detainees in the southern United States and improving access and drinking water service. This is revealed by the evaluation survey of the first one hundred days of government conducted […]

A new Human Rights attorney has been elected

Jose Apolonio Tobar has been elected as Human Rights Attorney of El Salvador. 57 congresspeople voted for the proposal of ARENA, FMLN and PDC, even when president Bukele asked them not to.   The method used for his candidacy has been questioned. He also faces accusations of crimes such as ideological falsehood, prevarication, influence peddling […]

Justice for Monsignor Romero / Justicia para monseñor Romero

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Yesterday, I was one of the hundreds of Salvadorans that marched asking for justice in the case of Monsignor Romero. Oscar Romero was assassinated 38 years ago and this weekend he will be proclaimed the first saint of El Salvador. Nevertheles, and despite what was stablished by the report of the United […]

Sanchez Ceren will prevent mining in the Trifinio region

Due the risk of contaminating key bodies of water shared by the three countries Translated from:  http://elecciones2014.elsalvador.com/articulo/sanchez-ceren-evitara-mineria-trifinio-976   Vice President Salvador Sanchez Ceren was emphatic in his statement that he will advocate for the suspension of all mining activity in the Trifinio Reserve area, alluding to the Cerro Blanco mining project located in Asuncion Mita, […]

FMLN candidate Sanchez Ceren commits not to exploit metal mining

February 23, 2014 Cristian Melendez, LA PRENSA GRAFICA   Environmental movement presented a set of proposals to the FMLN candidate asking for greater commitment on the issues. The Movement of Victims Affected Climate Change and Corporations (MOVIAC) delivered a proposal to the presidential candidate of the FMLN, Salvador Sanchez Ceren, yesterday in San Isidro, Cabañas. […]

The Presidential Candidates in the Nov 24th election

Daily Updates on the Elections — How to Stay Informed

With El Salvador’s second round of presidential elections just one week away, the coalition of solidarity organizations has created a website with up-to-the-moment news about the electoral context and updates from observation sites on voting day.  Sister Cities is one of the organiozations that will be sending news this week and throughout the day on […]

Burning History in San Salvador

Destruction of Historical and Human Rights Archives by SARAH MASLIN   At the crack of dawn on Thursday, Nov. 14, three armed men broke into the offices of Pro-Búsqueda, a non-profit in San Salvador that reunites families with children who went missing during El Salvador’s 1979-1992 civil war. They beat up the guards, poured gasoline […]