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 ...
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 ...
Video from the “War on Drugs” in El Salvador Virtual Delegation
January 21, 2012
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. ...
Short Film on the Struggle for Education in the US & El Salvador
December 25, 2011
"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 ...
Watch the Virtual Delegation with FMLN Youth Organizer Adalberto Elias
November 16, 2011
If you missed the virtual delegation with Adalberto Elias, FMLN Municipal Youth Coordinator of San Salvador, you can watch it here!
Protests halt gold mining in El Salvador
July 27, 2011
Resistance from environmentalists, and death threats against them, puts spotlight on El Dorado mine. From Al Jazeera
The World Bank considers a Canadian company
June 2, 2011
click here to download audio file of the FSRN report This week , hearings began at the World Bank in a case that pits the community of San Isidro, El Salvador against the powerful Canadian mining corporation Pacific Rim. After seeing the effects of mining on other communities in ...
from Democracy Now, March 24, 2011. Watch the second segment on El Salvador: http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/24/as_obama_completes_first_latin_america
Fighting For Our Very Lives- Pacific Rim in El Salvador
February 2, 2011
Short video by Nicola Chávez-Courtright about the struggle against mining in El Salvador