(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) In May, the Legislative Assembly now controlled by the New Ideas party decided to archive the historic proposal that came from civil society to legislate the use of water, as well as the gender identity law and other bills that they considered “obsolete” for the current reality of El Salvador. Last […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) As REUTERS reports: A U.S. State Department report on Central American officials “credibly alleged” to be corrupt includes a member of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s cabinet and a former minister, according to an extract of the document leaked on Monday. (…) Bukele appeared scornful of the State Department list, noting on […]
MOFGA’s 2020 Common Ground Country Fair had to go virtual this year due to the COVID19 pandemic. The Bangor and MOFGA committees rose to the occasion and created a video where they could share what they learned during the December 2019 delegation to El Salvador. Here’s their video: Please check all the other […]
(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 […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Last thursday, on september 27th, the different regions of CRIPDES and Sister Cities joined the call made by religious leaders and the Water Forum, rejecting the idea of having private companies among those regulating water distribution in El Salvador. The attendees marched asking for a reform that would make access to […]
The Guardian recently wrote an article about the danger of having the private sector involved in the water supply system. “What we are going to have is a country that has less and less drinking water and that has a higher percentage of contaminated water,” said Andreu Oliva, the rector of Central American University José […]
(En Español abajo) As done in the past, CRIPDES and the staff of Sister Cities joined the rally against water privatization initiatives outside the National Association of Private Companies (ANEP, in Spanish), who is trying to integrate a management body making decisions on water distribution and how much they would charge for it. ANEP’s […]
(Written by Rachel Dunlap) On Wednesday afternoon Mario and I, accompanied by two representatives from CCR, met with the board of San Isidro next to the community´s school. There, we were greeted by the board who was eager to talk about scholarship division and education inaccessibility, amongst other issues like water privatization. The board […]
Article 69 of the Salvadoran Constitution establishes that the State will control for the quality of FOOD and ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS that could affect health and wellbeing. The Salvadoran social movement, made up of urban and rural, religious and political, young and old, is now demanding that to this article be added the human right to […]
While big companies make millions from El Salvador’s water-rich Nejapa municipality, locals have little or no access to water Article by Claire Provost and Matt Kennard Ana Luisa Najarro’s neighbours include some of the world’s largest corporations. Down the street from her house, giant drinks manufacturers have set up a series of factories […]