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Apply this June to join our first Medical Brigade!

Medical Brigade: August 11-25, 2012 Application deadline extended! June 1 for doctors in order to get paperwork turned, and June 15 for all other applicants! Download an application, flyer and information sheet. Since 2009, the Ministry of Health has implemented important new programs to guarantee access to ...
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Declining US Influence Evident at Summit of the Americas

On April 16th, the US-sponsored Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia concluded with unanimous hemispheric rejection of the US-enforced exclusion of Cuba from the proceedings.  The Summit of the Americas has been held every three years since 1994, when ...
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70,000 March against Proposed Privatization Law on May Day

Over 70,000 workers, students, campesinos and campesinas, community organizations, and members of the left Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, party took to the streets of San Salvador to march for International Workers Day, or May Day. Marching in blocks representing ...
Current Police Director Salinas (left) and Public Security Minister Munguia Payes are both former army generals.

Court Deliberates on Constitutionality of Military Appointments

Civil society’s opposition to the rapid changes in El Salvador’s Public Security Ministry continues to gain ground. On March 26, the Supreme Court to accepted a lawsuit seeking to annul the appointment of two former general David Munguía Payés as ...
Anti-mining coalition rallies for justice at Attorney General's office.

Salvadorans Pressure the Attorney General for Justice

Reposted with permission of the author -  Jan Morrill, Coordinator of the International Allies Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador coalition On April 25th the civil society organizations and communities that make up the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining (the Mesa ...
Special mass to celebrate the gang truce in the Izalco Prison. Source: Diario La Pagina

Salvadoran Gov’t Accused of Negotiating with Gangs, After 40% Drop in Murders

A 40% drop in murder rates in El Salvador in mid-March prompted the media and the public to take a closer look at the security tactics being employed by the country´s Ministry of Justice and Public Security, now under the ...
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