Take Action to Stop U.S. Support for Repression in El SalvadorSalvadoran police attack market vendors on May 12On Saturday, May 12 the Salvadoran National Civilian Police (PNC) provoked violence and chaos in downtown San Salvador, targeting the organized CD/DVD Vendors Movement. Early in the afternoon, the Finance Unit of the ...

CISPES Action Alert - April 26, 2007  Inlate March, representatives of SOA Watch and CISPES visited the InternationalLaw Enforcement Academy (ILEA) in SanSalvador, the first international visit of the newfacility. The School of the Americas (SOA) is the notorious training ground forLatin American human rights abusers, and people in El ...

CISPES ACTION ALERT - March/April, 2007download formatted version hereMarch 24 marks the 27th anniversary of the brutal murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero, the tenacious defender of El Salvador‘s poor and marginalized majority who was gunned down by an operative of the U.S.-backed Salvadoran death squads while giving mass. Twenty seven ...

Contact your congressperson and urge her/him to sign Rep. Michaud's letter to the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly (text below)BACKGROUNDCommunities in rural El Salvador are being threatened by mining exploration and extraction. These communities are gravely concerned that mining activities-large-scale open-pit and subterranean excavations using a cyanide extraction process-will exacerbate levels ...

* Salvadoran movement calls for international pressure for removal of negligent government officials *Although President Saca declared that 2007 would be the "Year ofPeace," the year has begun with a tragic, bloody massacre in theApanteos prison in Santa Ana, El Salvador. Although good informationhas been slow in coming, it is ...

With the passing of the second anniversary of the murder of Teamsters activist and compañero of CISPES, Gilberto Soto, there have been renewed calls for justice in his case.  This means the Salvadoran government must reopen the investigation in El Salvador.  Please see below and sign onto the petition to ...

Join CISPES in Publicly Defending the Right to Organize! On Tuesday, October 17, thousands of people took to the streets of San Salvador in the first major, national mobilization to protest the government’s plans to privatize water. This protest comes just weeks after the Salvadoran right wing party ...

SIGN THE OPEN LETTER TO SALVADORAN PRESIDENT ANTONIO SACA ON THE ESCALATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONSDear friends,The Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) is asking for your support in signing a letter to Salvadoran president Tony Saca and Interior Minister Rene Figueroa that will be published ...

Salvadoran Movement calls for international pressure for a timely and thorough investigation August 29, 2006 Alex Flores Montoya and Mercedes Peñate de Montoya, two well-known FMLN leaders, were found dead last Wednesday in the municipality of Coatepeque, department of Santa Ana. The husband and wife were traveling in their ...

Salvadoran Movement calls for Pressure on Embassy, Consulates, U.S. Congress The violence in San Salvador on Wednesday June 5 that lead to the death of multiple people, along with dozens injured, is being called the worst violation of human rights since the signing of the 1992 Peace Accords. Though ...