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 municipal and legislative elections. Among the issues Diputada Guevara touches ...

On January 21, 2012 CISPES hosted a conversation with Roger Blandino Nerio, Mayor of the Municipality of Mejicanos, about the effects of the "War on Drugs" in El Salvador. The US backed "War on Drugs" has devastated Colombia and Mexico and is now being expanded to Central America with similar consequences. ...

Re-posted from NACLA, the North American Congress on Latin America. Please read the original article here and support NACLA's great coverage of news and social movements in Latin America and the Caribbean! ‘Removing the Veil’: El Salvador Apologizes for State Violence on 20th Anniversary of Peace Accords Jan 17 2012 by Leah Wilson ...

"The Right to Learn", a film by Shirley Lavareda of UC Santa Cruz CISPES, compares the Occupy Movement with the Salvadoran struggle for justice, focusing on the specific issue of education. It features the CISPES West Coast touree from this Fall - Cristina Cornejo, youth leader of the leftist FMLN party. While ...

By Barbara Doherty, Inter-Press Service WASHINGTON, Dec 15, 2011 (IPS) - Protestors rallied in front of World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C. today hoping to persuade a tribunal housed there to dismiss a case brought by Pacific Rim Mining Corporation against the government of El Salvador. Pacific Rim is suing El Salvador ...

Download the 2011 Winter El Salvador Watch newsletter here Or click below for the articles included in the June 2011 edition of El Salvador Watch. Contents: Salvadoran Unions Battle Telecom Giant Carlos Slim Salvadoran Youth, ¡Adelante! The CISPES National Speaking Tour Hits The West Coast Interview with Margarito Nolasco  

Margarito Nolasco, the National Youth Secretary of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) party and a substitute Parliamentarian for the department of San Miguel, recently participated in CISPES’ Fall Tour, “Salvadoran Youth, Adelante!” One of the purposes for the tour was to inform people in the US, including Salvadorans, ...

by Alana Epstein, Portland CISPES November 2nd was a flurry of camaraderie and political education for the members and friends of Portland CISPES.  It was the fourth stop in CISPES' west coast speaking tour, which featured Cristina Cornejo, a youth leader of the leftist Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation party ...

Legal maneuvering and union-busting threaten to crush the organizing that has unified workers across industries in El Salvador. But Salvadoran unions and their allies are fighting to protect their fragile gains. Hundreds rallied on October 10, outside the offices of the Supreme Court, including members of the  Tele communications Industrial ...

If you missed the virtual delegation with Adalberto Elias, FMLN Municipal Youth Coordinator of San Salvador, you can watch it here!