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 ...

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At eight in the morning on May 1, 2011, crowds began to gather at the Salvador del Mundo monument in San Salvador under the already intense sun.  Buses transporting people from other zones of the country—some who had left their homes as early as 3:00 AM—began to arrive.  As more ...

Promotes “common prosperity,” but for whom? In March, President Obama made his first presidential tour of Latin America, visiting Brazil, Chile and El Salvador. For decades, right-wing political parties in El Salvador held on to power through an intense fear campaign, threatening that if the leftist Frente Farabundo Martí para la ...

A Reflection on the LASC Education and Strategy Conference From April 12-14, over four hundred students, solidarity activists, artists, community organizers and academics gathered at American University to rally against militarization of the Americas for the fifth conference of the Latin America Solidarity Coalition (LASC). The weekend's goal was to raise ...

By Dan Blumenthal, D.C. CISPES In May 14 & 15, three members of the DC CISPES chapter traveled to New York City to attend CISPES’s regional political school. Though we weren’t sure exactly what to expect, we felt that it would be a good place to learn more about the history ...

download the 2011 Spring El Salvador Watch newsletter hereOr click below for the articles included in the March 2011 edition of El Salvador Watch.  Contents: Dangers Rising for Central American Migrants in Mexico The New Republican Congress Threatens Latin America Now Serving the Pueblo: The Salvadoran Institute for the Wellbeing of Teachers Midwest ...