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 ...

Audio report produced by Cory Fischer-Hoffman from the Elections Delegation on WGXC Community Radio in Greene and Columbia Counties, NY. Click hereto listen! (15:44) Allison Aguilar narrates the journey, which visits the new social programs underway in El Salvador and then members of the 30-person delegation share their experiences observing the ...

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. ...

"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 ...

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

Resistance from environmentalists, and death threats against them, puts spotlight on El Dorado mine.  From Al Jazeera

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