July 7, 2014, Murrieta, Calif. Photo: Yahoo! News. More at: migrationisbeautiful.com
Here at CISPES, we’ve been reading the news about kids arriving from Central America and Mexico with a mix of heartbreak and anger, not only because of the racist ...
On Friday afternoon, as President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met at the White House with the presidents of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador to discuss the increasing numbers of Central American children crossing the border into the ...
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In recent weeks, the cost of beans, a staple of the Salvadoran diet, has increased by 67% due to market speculation in what appears to be a deliberate destabilization tactic against the leftist Sánchez Cerén administration by ...
According to official reports, 52,000 children have been apprehended at the US border since October 2013, the majority from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Many make the perilous journey in order to reunite with family from whom they have been ...
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Here, we translate a report from the El Salvador-based Center for Labor Studies & Support (CEAL in Spanish) on an important victory by ex-workers of Manufacturas Del RÃo. As CEAL had reported previously, the ...
Salvadoran feminist and women’s organizations are waging an international campaign demanding a pardon for the 17 women currently incarcerated in El Salvador for abortion, in hopes of challenging the country’s harsh anti-abortion laws and beginning to change the anti-choice views ...
Popular pressure from El Salvador and the US appears to have succeeded in forcing the United States to back down from its campaign to undermine El Salvador’s efforts to support impoverished family farmers and advance towards food sovereignty and security.
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Last week, at the 14th annual National Private Sector Encounter (ENADE) in San Salvador, the most powerful agents of El Salvador’s economic elite proposed an extreme municipal privatization initiative, based on a model implemented in post-coup Honduras.
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For Immediate Release -Â Thursday, July 3, 2014
Contact:
Laura Embree-Lowry, Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (202) 521-2510
Kate Fried, Food & Water Watch (202) 683-4905
Advocates to Sec. Kerry: Don’t jeopardize successful food security program in El Salvador
Leading international development, ...
On July 1, Representatives Pocan and Honda sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, signed by 16 congressional representatives demanding that the United States government stop requiring changes to the Salvadoran government's seed buying process for its Family ...