SINTI TECHAN
Citizen action network faced with commerce and investment
During our passage through El Salvador, we made a short stop at the capital to learn more about a network that was formed not long ago. It is the SINTI TECHAN citizen action network faced with large scale commerce and investment; Sinti Techan is a term that means “maize of the people” in the native Nahualt. In the offices of UNES (Unidad Ecologica Salvadoreña or Salvadorian Ecological Unity), we met with Nidia Hidalgo who briefly introduced us to what is happening in El Salvador with the oncoming Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), and infrastructure mega-projects such as Plan Puebla Panama (PPP).

written by Johanne Pelletier and Francis Murchison,
october 31st, 2004, San Salvador, El Salvador