Video Interview: FMLN Legislator Gives Insider Perspective on the 2012 Elections

Video Interview: FMLN Legislator Gives Insider Perspective on the 2012 Elections

Recently, CISPES sat down with Norma Guevara, the Elections Secretary of the leftist Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation (FMLN) party and FMLN representative to the Legislative Commission on Election Reforms, to hear an overview on the major issues at play in March's ...
Montano was indicted at a federal immigration court in Boston, MA. Image source: Huffington Post

A Step Forward in Justice for 1989 Jesuit Massacre

In a roundabout development in the search for justice in the 1989 massacre of 6 Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter by the Salvadoran military during El Salvador's Civil War, one of the accused perpetrators - ex-Colonel Inocente Orlando ...
anep1

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 ...
2012enero14violenciaelectoral

Elections Bulletin #3: San Salvador Municipal Employees Attack FMLN Campaigners on Day 2 of Campaign

On Wednesday, January 11, brigades from all parties took to the streets to post campaign materials for their parties and candidates on the first day of the official two-month campaign period for the March 11 elections. The following morning, San ...
peacenotguns

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

Click here to take action against the re-militarization of El Salvador! 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 ...
Page 1 of 89:1 2 3 4 » Last »