On March 20, 2013, El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly approved the budget for the 2014 Presidential elections, following more than two months of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) party blocking its approval. The original budget of $54.9 million, which already had the support of every political party except ARENA, was ...

FMLN presidential candidate Salvador Sánchez Cerén at the launch of the national consultation. The leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) party is currently carrying out a massive popular consultation, lauched in February and known as the National Dialogue for the El Salvador that We Want, that intends to “build ...

SOAW delegation press conference at Monument to Truth and Memory in San Salvador. (Photo credit: SHARE Foundation) Last week, a School of the Americas Watch (SOAW) delegation, accompanied by SOAW founder Father Roy Bourgeois, visited El Salvador to make contact with Salvadoran allies, commemorate the life of Monsignor Oscar Romero ...

FMLN leads in the polls The latest CID GALLUP poll shows 32% of those polled plan on voting for current Vice-President Salvador Sánchez Cerén, the presidential candidate for the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), in the February 2014 elections. Norman Quijano, the current Mayor of San Salvador and presidential ...

On Monday, February 25, President Funes swore in the representatives to the Access to Public Information Institute (IAIP) after 15 months of delay. The IAIP is the final and key piece in completing the Access to Information Law, and its formation marks a significant achievement in government transparency for El ...

Young women attendees of the first youth festival holding a sign that says, "I participate." Photo: FMLN Youth San Salvador On Saturday February 23, the National Youth Secretariat of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) and the FMLN Cultural Secretariat sponsored the first Festival Juvenil Avenida Revolución (Revolution Avenue ...

"Francisco Lainez discusses: Weakening of ARENA party" Photo: Canal 33 The right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) party suffered another political blow last Friday when Francisco Laínez, a long-time leader in the party, publicly renounced his membership. The Minister of Foreign Relations under the administration of President Tony Saca (2004-2009) and ...

The Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) would like to express our deepest sympathies and solidarity with the people of Venezuela as they mourn the passing of their president, Hugo Chávez Frías. Working families and people struggling for self-determination across the world have lost an ally ...

The disputed LaGeo geothermal energy plant in Ahuachapán that El Salvador is fighting to keep in public hands. Photo: Fernando Marroquin The National Legislative Assembly has created a special commission to investigate the contract between the Italian company and the state energy company that established LaGeo, the public geothermal energy ...

Ex-president Tony Saca announces presidential bid with UNIDAD coalition. Photo: LA PRENSA/EFE/Roberto Escobar This week, El Salvador’s right-wing parties further defined candidates for 2014 Presidential elections, including the official confirmation of ex-president Antonio "Tony" Saca’s presidential bid.  Saca announced that he will run with the right-wing UNIDAD (“Unity”) coalition against ...