(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 […]
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 […]
(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 […]
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, […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
November 14, 2013 At 4:30am this morning in San Salvador, three armed men forced their way into the office of Probusqueda, a prominent Salvadoran human rights organization that searches for and reunites children who were forcibly disappeared during the civil war with their families. After the men attacked, tied up, and disarmed the security guard, they […]
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 […]
Statement from the MPR-12 Alliance, (Popular Resistance Movement of October 12th), an alliance of Salvadoran social organizations that came together to resist the approval of CAFTA in 2005. In El Salvador, Fiscal Problems are the Most Contradictory and Important to Address Our country is in one of the most difficult moments with regard to […]