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	Chalatenango Department - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		SV-CH Chalatenango is a department of El Salvador, located in the northwest of the country.
		Chalatenango was made a department on February 14, 1855.
		The "5th of November" Hydroelectric Dam is found in Chalatenango Department, near the border with Cabañas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chalatenango_Department (130 words)

	El Salvador - Counterinsurgency Tactics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The army plan was to coordinate military operations in two eastern departments with governmentsponsored economic development of the area and to establish local civil defense and social improvement programs.
		The army stationed 4,000 troops in central San Vicente Department with the objectives of forcing guerrilla units out of their bases in the northern sector and then establishing a buffer zone defended mainly by civil defense units.
		In September 1984, Colonel Ochoa, then commander of the Fourth Infantry Brigade in Chalatenango Department, attempted a similar campaign to clear guerrillas from the two northern departments of Chalatenango and Cabanas.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-4325.html (1011 words)

	MOFGA - The MOF&G - Dec 2003 - MOFGA’s Herman@s:* Let’s Create Our Own Free Trade Agreements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Chalatenango is home to some 130,000 residents and is about the size of Waldo County.
		The delegates, who represented two nongovernmental organizations that are sistering with MOFGA, gave two talks in the Agricultural Demonstrations Area of the Fair, and delegate Juvelina Palma gave a keynote speech at the Fair.
		Their organizations--CCR (Association of Communities for the Development of Chalatenango) and CORDES (Foundation for Communal Cooperation and Development of El Salvador)--help farmers plant long-term perennial crops, such as coconuts, avocados, mangos, papayas and limes, on terraced land, with shorter-term crops in between, such as vegetables, beans and corn.
	www.mofga.org /mofgd03h.html (1955 words)

	MiningWatch > Chalatenango Communities Step Up Resistance to Au Martinique
		The town of San José Las Flores in Chalatenango overlooks the hills the mining company Au Martinique Silver claims to be rich in gold and other precious minerals, according to its March presentation to investors posted on the Martinique web site.
		The Ecological Association of Chalatenango (ASECHA), is also carrying out an educational campaign for the more than 2000 students in the public schools of the city of Chalatenango, in coordination with the organized communities of the CCR.
		The current licences Martinique has include parts of the municipality of Chalatenango, specifically the communities of Guarjila and Ignacio Ellacur’a, and some of the territory which falls under the mining licence in municipalities such as San José Las Flores is owned by residents of Chalatenango.
	www.miningwatch.ca /index.php?/Au_Martinique/Chala_update_3 (667 words)

	Essay: The crucified people: A Holy Week meditation
		The dominant memories are of U.S. bombs and missiles that showered on the people as they fled their homes and that killed husbands and children during the 1980s.
		On the Saturday of my visit, people from all over the department came to Las Flores to unveil a monument to 117 children captured and killed by the military in the 1980s.
		What is true of Chalatenango is true of the entire country.
	natcath.org /NCR_Online/archives2/2002a/032202/032202k.htm (2857 words)

	Local Economic Development in Central America: The PRODERE Experience - Employment Sector
		The total population of the municipalities of the department is 816.300 with an area of 7.400 km².
		The principal crops of the Department are coffee, vegetable and fruit.
		The department is endowed with a university and a research centre on agriculture, focusing particularly on appropriate technology.
	www.ilo.org /public/english/employment/ent/papers/prodere.htm (17292 words)

	Dateline ACT
		Fifteen deaths and 500 injuries were reported in the Department of San Vicente, where the historic center of San Vicente was practically levelled.
		Some damage has been reported in the Department of San Miguel, for example on the second and third floors of the National Hospital, from which patients have been evacuated.
		Ninety percent of the homes in San Luis del Carmen, in the Department of Chalatenango, were damaged or destroyed.
	www.act-intl.org /news/dt_nr_2001/nrels0401.html (598 words)

	El Salvador 12.132 - Admissible
		At the time of their detention/disappearance on June 2, 1982, the sisters Ernestina and Erlinda Serrano Cruz, ages seven and three respectively, were captured by the Salvadoran military during a raid by the Atlacatl Battalion on the municipality of San Antonio La Cruz, in the Department of Chalatenango.
		The family sought refuge in the Los Alvarenga mountains, in the jurisdiction of Nueva Trinidad, in the Department of Chalatenango.
		The case was reopened on March 14, 1996 at the instructions of the Constitutional Tribunal of the Supreme Court of Justice of El Salvador, after a habeas corpus appeal was lodged for the sisters.
	www.cidh.org /annualrep/2000eng/ChapterIII/Admissible/Elsalvador12.132.htm (2457 words)

	RIC Query - El Salvador (6 September 2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Cabañas was one of the most conflictive departments in El Salvador during the war, as can be seen from the number of rights violations recorded by the El Rescate Database.
		It is located in the north-central part of the country in between Chalatenango and Morazán departments, and in the 1980s there was constant FMLN guerrilla movements in and around Cabañas and frequent engagements with the military.
		Ochoa Pérez went on to become commander of the Fourth Brigade in the neighboring department of Chalatenango from 1984 to 1986.
	uscis.gov /graphics/services/asylum/ric/documentation/SLV02004.htm (1062 words)

	Physicians Launch DNA Testing to Reunite "Disappeared" Salvadoran Children with Parents
		The Boston-based organization plans to expand the DNA testing service to other countries such as Guatemala and Rwanda where it may be the only way to reunite children torn from their parents as a result of human rights violations in their countries.
		The eleven children are among 50 who were kidnapped by the Salvadoran military in 1982 during a 9-day operation in the northeast region of the rural Department of Chalatenango.
		Nelson was one of 54 children who were abducted by the Salvadoran army during a 9-day sweep through a guerilla stronghold in the northeastern region of the Department of Chalatenango.
	www.phrusa.org /research/forensics/el_salvador/fordna1.html (1669 words)

	americas.org - Resisting the New Conquistadors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Chalatenango was and still is a stronghold of the FMLN, the former guerrilla movement that has now become El Salvador’s main opposition political party.
		People in Chalatenango have been organizing against the mining companies since the first prospecting teams began to arrive in the region earlier this year.
		Mineral mining in Central America has a dark history, and the organized communities of Chalatenango are familiar with the process of bribery, pressure, threats, violence and displacement that the mining projects have brought to other communities.
	www.americas.org /item_23469 (2042 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The press conference is planned to coincide with massive anti-mining demonstrations by small farmers and community development groups in the Salvadoran Department of Chalatenango, where Carasque is located.
		Gold mining in Chalatenango would contaminate the water and the soil, dealing the final deathblow to small farming communities that are just barely eking out a living from the land.
		Investors need to know that the communities of Chalatenango are organized, united, and have a long history of fighting for their land.
	www.indymedia.org /content/2005/11/827956.shtml (403 words)

	El Salvador 1994 - II. El Savador adn its international commitments in the area of human righs:
		A note was received from the Government (September 30, 1993) advising that the case had been in the probable cause proceeding stage ("instrucción") since 1985; no arrests had been made; the body of the victim had been identified; and witnesses had been summoned.
		The latter had stalked the victim and then shot him to death as the victim was returning to his home in the Tapalhuaca district in the department of La Paz, after attending a wake for a deceased aunt.
		The next day he was taken to Corinto in the Department of Morazán and then by helicopter to San Francisco Gotera in that same department.
	www.cidh.oas.org /countryrep/ElSalvador94eng/II.3.htm (5085 words)

	Comparative Criminology \| North America - El Salvador
		The United States Department of State reported that this requirement was followed in the great majority of cases in 1987.
		According to the Department of State, the judicial reform program comprised a legal revisory commission, a judicial protection unit, a commission for investigations, and a judicial training program.
		FMLN guerrillas inflicted disproportionately high casualties on the army in attacks on installations such as the Fourth Infantry Brigade garrison at El Paraiso in Chalatenango Department and in a mortar barrage on a GN facility in San Salvador.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /faculty/rwinslow/namerica/el_salvador.html (10862 words)

	noticias 13 de febrero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The epicenter was near San Pedro Nonualco, in the Department of La Paz.
		Since this seismic activity is caused by the shifting of a different plate, and is not a direct aftershock of the 13 January quake, it has impacted regions and towns not seriously affected by last month's quake.
		In the department of La Paz, fifty deaths have been reported in San Juan Tepezontes, another six in San Miguel Tepezontes.
	www.terremotoelsalvador.org.sv /1302-3lwf.html (452 words)

	thelukey Departamento de Chalatenango Travel Page - VirtualTourist.com
		The city of Chalatenango, capital of the department of the same name, is an emblematic exemplar of a mid-sized Salvadoran market town — commerce is the name of the game, and there really isn’t much to do there besides buying and selling.
		A large swath of the city of Chalatenango is taken over by this invasion of commerce, making the entire town feel like one big, loud, dirty, and uncomfortably hot marketplace (especially on Tuesday, when it becomes difficult to navigate the sidewalks due to the influx of buyers and sellers).
		Since Chalatenango is the closest “city” to my Peace Corps site, I’ve been there countless times during the past four years in order to do a variety of mundane errands.
	members.virtualtourist.com /m/10715/a14 (392 words)

	Press Releases - Embassy of the United States in El Salvador
		At Copinalito Elementary School in Tejutla, Chalatenango Department, Tully Cornick, Deputy Director of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in El Salvador and Salvadoran Education Minister Rolando Marín presided over the formal inauguration in El Salvador of the Centers of Excellence in Teacher Training (CETT).
		This education initiative to improve learning and literacy for children in the Western Hemisphere was announced by President George W. Bush at the Summit of the Americas in April 2001.
		The training centers in El Salvador will provide teaching workshops and materials to 100 primary school teachers in 84 schools in rural areas of the Department of Chalatenango, with the goal of strengthening the teaching of reading in the classroom for some 2000 students in the first, second, and third grades.
	www.usinfo.org.sv /news/2004/05/05192004.html (205 words)

	El Salvador
		In August a prominent women's rights organization asserted that sexual harassment was widespread within the PNC and that female officers were subject to violence within the police (see Section 5).
		There was no new information in the 1999 case of PNC agents in Chalatenango department charged with hitting, insulting, and threatening six homosexuals.
		The Supreme Court has maintained that its Department of Judicial Investigation and the CNJ scrutinized judicial performance on an ongoing basis and that, therefore, the court system needs no further oversight mechanisms or disciplinary procedures.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/wha/8354.htm (12173 words)

	FAO/GIEWS - Foodcrops & Shortages 10/00 - EL SALVADOR (11 September) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Harvesting of the 2000/01 first season cereal and bean crops continues under normal weather conditions, following an unusually long dry summer spell (“canicula”) in July which severely affected the crops in some areas.
		Particularly affected were the eastern parts of the country, the Department of Santa Ana in the north-west, some areas in the south-western Departments of Ahuachapán and Sonsonate and the western part of the Department of Chalatenango in the north.
		Production of maize, the main cereal, is thus provisionally forecast at a slightly below average 570 000 tonnes, while that of sorghum is expected at a below-average 145 000 tonnes.
	www.fao.org /docrep/004/x8374e/pays/els0010e.htm (273 words)

	STOP NEWMONT MINING -- Newmont Mining Can Run But It Can't Hide
		The two companies, Au Martinique Silver (which has its head offices in Denver CO) and Intrepid Minerals, have been issued licenses to explore areas in the Department of Chalatenango by the Salvadoran government, which claims that local permission is not necessary.
		The basis for this claim is that while villagers may own the topsoil, the subsoil and rock beneath their lands is national property, rights to which can be sold by the government for exploration and subsequent mining.
		During the war and for several years prior, most residents in northeast Chalatenango were regarded by the government as a hostile population.
	www.stopnewmont.org /martinique.html (744 words)

	PICA - Sister Cities Mining
		The organized communities in the Department of Chalatenango, El Salvador, feel that they are facing the most dangerous threat to their survival since the war.
		include the municipalities of Chalatenango, San José Las Flores, Nueva Trinidad, San Isidro Labrador, Arcatao, San Antonio de la Cruz, and San José Concaste, for a total of 99.7 square kilometers.
		Community members are convinced that this strip mining utilizing a cyanide extraction process will destroy their reforested land, pollute their water supply, ruin their agriculture and make their communities, sooner or later, uninhabitable.
	www.pica.ws /ss/mining.html (310 words)

	EL SALVADOR, Landmine Monitor Report 2005
		In May 2004, Oscar Chávez Valiente, Secretary-General of the National Civilian Police, provided detailed information about some of the regions that are affected by explosive devices: the departments of Chalatenango, San Vicente, Usulatán, Morazán and Cuscatlán, the Guazapa Volcano area (department of San Salvador) and Cinquera region (department of Cabañas).
		In May 2005, family members of a six-year-old boy who lost his leg in a mine explosion in the municipality of Cojutepeque in the department of Cuscatlán informed the local representative of Landmine Survivors Network (LSN) of the incident.
		Landmine Survivors Network (LSN) has six community-based outreach workers; all are mine survivors who work with individual survivors to assess their needs, offer psychological and social support, educate their families about the effects of limb loss, facilitate access to medical rehabilitation and vocational training, and advocate for the rights of disabled people.
	www.icbl.org /lm/2005/el_salvador.html (3176 words)

	The NarcoSphere \|\| Resisting the New Conquistadors
		The IHRC sentence was issued in November of 2004 in relation to the case of
		We inform the Salvadoran people and the international community, that the 23rd day of March, one day before the 26 anniversary of the Assassination of Archbishop Romero, we began a hunger fast with 26 people in the Cathedral of Chalatenango, provincial capital, against the impunity of the Salvadoran Government.
		We declare before the Government and the Ministry of the Economy and Environment our total and energetic rejection of the introduction of mining projects into the northeast of Chalatenango, declaring these lands are fruits left to us after twelve years of war suffered in El Salvador.
	narcosphere.narconews.com /story/2005/12/1/11110/7474 (1350 words)

	Feature 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The four delegates are from Chalatenango Department (equivalent to State or Province) in the mountainous northwestern region of El Salvador.
		Later, the Volckhausens, Bambi Jones and David Moskovitz were members of a delegation that visited Chalatenango to learn more about agriculture in El Salvador and the problems small farmers are facing.
		For the seven days of their visit, they slept on dirt floors--their meals consisted largely of beans and rice.
	www.state.me.us /agriculture/newsletter/archives/Vol4Iss16/feature_3.htm (951 words)

	Military.com Content
		Active Army and Army Reserve, Army and Air National Guard, Marine Corps Reserve, Navy and Air Force personnel are participating in Nuevos Horizontes 2000 to better prepare themselves for mobilization.
		The Salvadoran government selected the Chalatenango region to benefit from this year's exercise.
		Four schools and an extension to a medical clinic will be built, and six potable water wells will be drilled during the four-month exercise.
	www.military.com /Content/MoreContent/1,12044,FLsalvador,00.html (489 words)

	El Salvador
		This department also reviews the findings and recommendations of the National Judicial Council, which evaluates justices on an ongoing basis.
		The Court maintained that its Department of Judicial Investigation and the National Judicial Council already scrutinized judicial performance on an ongoing basis.
		There were no new developments in the 1999 murders of transvestite prostitutes "Doris" and Nestor Adonai Marenco (known as "Gloria") nor in the murders of transvestite prostitutes in 1998.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/wha/768.htm (10482 words)

	CV
		From July 2002 to May 2004, I worked advising the municipal government of Tecoluca and other local development agents, including local community base organizations and associative business initiatives and NGOs integrated in the Grupo Bajo Lempa consortium, on strategies for strengthening economic development initiatives being implemented in the context of Tecoluca’s strategic territorial development plan.
		From January 2001 to March 2002, I was responsible for the implementation of a project using participatory research methods to study and strengthen innovative capabilities in several initiatives in local economic development in five municipalities in Chalatenango, one of the country’s most marginalized, mainly rural departments.
		From September 1999 to June 2000, I worked as the principal researcher on a study of experiences in participatory development planning in 18 municipalities.
	www.plan.aau.dk /~ac/cv.htm (970 words)

	Marinus J. Sommeijer - EU PROJECT - PROMABOS
		This project on native bees and trees in El Salvador is executed by the Faculty of Biology, Utrecht University, for the European Commission, Brussels, under the daily supervision of the Bee Research Department.
		The project is executed for the EC by the Faculty of Biology, Utrecht University (Dr. Marinus J. Sommeijer, Dr. Harriet de Jong, Drs.
		The project, "PROMABOS", aims at the development of stingless beekeeping in the Montecristo forest area of El Salvador and in the Chalatenango department of El Salvador, where deforestation is important because of population pressure.
	www.bio.uu.nl /~sommeijer/promabos.html (688 words)

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