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 ...

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 ...

from Labor Notes - by Leah Wilson Legal maneuvering and union-busting threaten to crush the organizing that has unified workers across transnational companies in El Salvador. But Salvadoran unions and their allies are fighting to protect their fragile gains. Hundreds rallied Monday outside the offices of the Supreme Court, including members of the ...

People United talks about the work of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador as well as about political developments in the country itself with Matthew Gossage, who just returned from a CISPES delegation; Alice Embree, who became involved with CISPES during the Salvadoran civil war and ...

From the Boston Pheonix Mine. Not yours. By CHRIS FARAONE  |  October 27, 2010 If Chilean miners can maintain vast media attention for two months, then human-rights advocates may be in pole position to lure spotlights towardother underground issues below the border. With that notion and much more in mind, on Monday delegates ...

originally published at Left Turn By: Lisa Fuller, CISPES Transnational corporations have a new tool for appropriating resources, the latest in the long and sordid history of colonial resource theft from the Global South. According to a recent report by the Institute for Policy Studies, multinationals are increasingly turning to ...