FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Alexis Stoumbelis, Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador Phone: +011 503 7383-4944 E-mail: alexis@cispes.org US unions join May Day March in El Salvador to reject US privatization push May 3, 2013 SAN SALVADOR – An estimated 80,000 Salvadorans representing a wide array of labor organizations, university students, women's organizations ...

CISPES Labor Solidarity Delegates marching on May 1 with banner: "US Workers in Struggle against Privatization!" Yesterday, the organized Salvadoran left came out in force in celebration of May 1, International Workers Day. Over 80,000 members of labor, student, peasant, LGBTQ, feminist, indigenous and environmental organizations, accompanied by the leftist ...

Marchers heading towards the US Embassy. Photo: R.Q. Original article written by Gerson Chávez and published in Diario El Mundo. A hundred unionists marched to the US Embassy in Santa Elena yesterday to demand that US Ambassador Mari Carmen Aponte cease pressuring for the passage of the Public-Private Partnership Law. According to Wilfredo Berríos, ...

Tuesday, March 12, 2013. SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Representatives of US solidarity organizations the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), US-El Salvador Sister Cities, the Joining Hands Network, Voices on the Border and the SHARE Foundation joined hundreds of union activists from the Salvadoran Union ...

Click here to read the original article on the Labor Notes Blog.  Written by Hilary GoodfriendJanuary 4, 2013 Salvadoran electrical and municipal workers union leaders will tour the U.S. in February, asking allies to oppose the latest U.S.-backed privatization push in their country. "No to Public Partnerships With Thieves!" read one ...

The United States government is aggressively pushing a Public-Private Partnership (P3) law in El Salvador that workers, labor experts, and economists say will bring nothing more than lay-offs, lower wages, union busting, and higher costs for public services. Unions across El Salvador are uniting to fight this dangerous law and ...

Download the December Newsletter here Or click here to read each article: Salvadoran Social Programs In Peril Universal health care in El Salvador - A Personal Reflection “Noted supporter of terrorism”?! US Smear Campaign against FMLN Presidential Candidate Begins “Historic Opportunity” to Build Peace: El Salvador’s Gangs Maintain Truce “Organizers are not born, they are made”: West ...

US State Department and IMF push privatization of government industries For the first time in its history, the Salvadoran State has placed itself in the service of the people. Under the leadership of the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) party, the nation’s first leftist government is providing services ...

By Amanda Bloom, PA 2012 Medical Brigadista In August, I went to El Salvador with a group of fellow healthcare professionals from the US to learn firsthand about the health reforms initiated by the current FMLN government to provide free health care to all. We were told what a precious moment ...

In recent years, Members of Congress and State Department representatives have hurled the “anti-American” label against progressive and leftist governments in Latin America, largely in response to policy decisions that have limited US corporate access to their natural resources or markets, in order to justify political intervention or the expansion ...