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 the Clinton administration called the first Summit to push free ...
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 the Clinton administration called the first Summit to push free ...
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 individual unions, campesino organizations and other sectors of the Salvadoran ...
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 Minister of Public Security and former general Francisco Salinas as ...
Salvadorans Pressure the Attorney General for Justice
April 26, 2012
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 in Spanish) held a protest in front of the Attorney ...
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 leadership of retired military officers. In an investigative report by ...
Baby steps towards drug legalization in Central America?
March 27, 2012
Central American leaders continued dialogue around alternatives to the drug war on March 23 at a summit in Antigua, Guatemala. Though the summit failed to produce a joint statement, President Otto Perez Molina of Guatemala, the strongest voice in favor of a revised approach to the drug war, said the ...
Thirty-two years ago on March 24, 1980, Monseñor Óscar Arnulfo Romero, a Catholic archbishop and the beloved "voice of the voiceless" in El Salvador was gunned down at mass by Salvadoran state-linked forces, in an operation planned and executed by Salvadoran graduates of the US military training academy known as ...
Results of the 2012 Elections
March 12, 2012
From the 2012 Elections Blog
With over 95% of the ballots counted, the results of the March 2012 legislative and municipal elections are in.
Legislative elections results
The right-wing ARENA party has recuperated a significant number of seats in the Legislative Assembly, winning 33 seats out of 84 seats, one more seat than ...
On February 17th, the Salvadoran Legislature approved the FMLN’s proposed Medications Law to overhaul the pharmaceutical industry. Due to the current lack of regulation, El Salvador has the highest medicine costs in the world, with brand-name drugs selling for 52.2 times the average international price and generic drugs selling for, ...
The women-led SITRASACOSI textile workers’ union in El Salvador continues to make important progress in their ongoing struggle for workers’ rights and safe working conditions in an atmosphere designed to keep workers unorganized and without a voice.
Beginning in September 2010, workers at the NEMTEX factory began clandestinely organizing a union ...