The Escazú Agreement, a watershed 2018 United Nations environmental treaty for Latin America and the Caribbean, could mark a dramatic shift in environmental policy for Central America. Despite the deepening climate change-related degradation of the country’s environment and violence against the environmentalists who come to its defense, though, the Bukele administration hasn’t publicly expressed its […]
June XX, 2014 Dear Secretary Kerry; We were heartened by your comments following the election of El Salvador’s new president, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, which expressed your commitment to maintaining a strong relationship between our two governments. More than two decades after the country’s Peace Accords were signed, El Salvador is now a mature and stable […]
November 11th, 2013 www.cispes.org Click here to sign and share the petition today to help us collect 1000 signers by the end Monday, Nov 11 to deliver to the Archbishop! This petition will be presented to the Archbishop in the next week. On September 30, Archbishop Escobar of San Salvador abruptly shut down the Archdiocese’s historic human […]
Contact the Foreign Policy Staffer in the Washington DC Office of Your Representative to Sign on to the Hank Johnson Dear Colleague Letter Today! On Monday, January 07, 2013, U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) circulated a House sign-on “Dear Colleague” letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Attorney General Holder addressing ongoing human […]
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 […]
San Salvador, El Salvador. One hundred and eight international organizations sent a letter to the Interim Attorney General, Ástor Escalante Savaria, this Friday (July 24, 2009), demanding an exhaustive investigation into the kidnapping and brutal assassination of activist Gustavo Marcelo Rivera Moreno. In the letter the organizations categorically rejected the declarations that the district attorney […]