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Working Class Sees First Progressive Tax Reform in Decades

This important news from December slipped through the cracks while CISPES rushed to follow changes in the security cabinet. After twenty years of protesting tax reforms that only shifted the tax burden onto the poor and working class and off the ...
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Take Action NOW Against the Re-Militarization of El Salvador

In a major cabinet shakeup, El Salvador’s President Mauricio Funes has effectively removed all high-ranking members of his public security cabinet who are linked to the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). Their replacements, including several high-ranking military officers, ...
Ex-Genera Salinas (center) sworn in as director of the Civilian National Police.

FMLN Swept from Public Security Cabinet, Replaced by Officials and Military Officers Close to the US

On Monday January 23, the Funes administration named retired general Francisco Ramón Salinas as the new director of El Salvador's National Civil Police (PNC), replacing former Director Carlos Ascencio and thus removing the last high-ranking member of the public security ...
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Video from the “War on Drugs” in El Salvador Virtual Delegation

On January 21, 2012 CISPES hosted a conversation with Roger Blandino Nerio, Mayor of the Municipality of Mejicanos, about the effects of the "War on Drugs" in El Salvador. The US backed "War on Drugs" has devastated Colombia and Mexico and ...
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Still time to Join the CISPES March Elections Observation Delegation

The application deadline has been extended to Friday, January 20.  Send in your application today to observe these historic elections! DEFEND THE TRANSFORMATION Elections Observation Delegation March 3 - 17, 2012 CISPES invites you to join the Defend the Transformation elections observation delegation this March 3-17, 2012! ...
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NACLA Article: ‘Removing the Veil’: El Salvador Apologizes for State Violence on 20th Anniversary of Peace Accords

Re-posted from NACLA, the North American Congress on Latin America. Please read the original article here and support NACLA's great coverage of news and social movements in Latin America and the Caribbean! ‘Removing the Veil’: El Salvador Apologizes for State Violence ...
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