Author: Carmen Rodriguez

35 años después del asesinato de las religiosas Maryknoll en El Salvador, organizaciones exigen justicia

December 21, 2015

Han pasado 35 años del cruel asesinato de cuatro religiosas estadounidenses a manos de la Fuerza Armada de El Salvador. Durante la conmemoración de la muerte de las religiosas, organizaciones sociales exigieron que el Estado salvadoreño reabra el caso, investigue y condene a los jefes militares que en 1980 ordenaron y respaldaron el crimen que conmocionó al país y a la comunidad internacional.

Bishop of San Salvador Suspended for Sexual Abuse

December 7, 2015

Bishop Jesús Delgado, third in line from the Archbishop of El Salvador and the leader of the effort to canonize the martyr Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, has been suspended from all his functions in the Catholic Church after confessing to having sexually abused a nine-year-old girl.

New Laws Seek to Limit Mining in El Salvador

December 1, 2015

Since 2014, organized farmers from several municipalities of the department of Chalatenango, located in the north of the country, have expressed their full rejection to a mining operation in the area. In November this struggle has represented an important precedent and has compelled the local government to start the process of passing a municipal law that will prohibit companies from exploiting gold and other metals from the mountains.

Suspenden a obispo de San Salvador por abuso sexual

November 27, 2015

El obispo Jesús Delgado, tercero en la línea jerárquica del Arzobispado de El Salvador e impulsor de la causa de canonización del mártir Oscar Arnulfo Romero, fue suspendido de todas sus funciones en la Iglesia Católica luego de haber aceptado que abusó sexualmente de una niña de nueve años.

El Salvador’s Multi-Billion Dollar Security Plan Sparks Criticism

October 22, 2015

While the National Security Council analyzes the strategies used in Colombia and Brazil to resolve El Salvador’s security crisis, President Salvador Sánchez Cerén is knocking on doors in search of funding to start its plan for a “Secure El Salvador

El Salvador Declares Gang Members Terrorists, and Violence Continues

September 7, 2015

The Salvadoran state has closed off all possibility of any kind of negotiation with the gangs. The constitutional court’s August ruling, which stated that gang members will be considered as terrorists under Salvadoran law, will also affect the thousands of people who work with the gangs, all the way from family members to taxi drivers.