by Nidia Bautista, Santa Cruz CISPES & National Office intern The University of California Santa Cruz is home to the newest CISPES chapter on the West Coast! Santa Cruz CISPES was formed at the start of the academic year by students from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds, including some ...

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By Kraig Cook, Seattle CISPES Abuses and dangers for migrantscrossing the Mexico-US border in search of economic opportunity are well-known.  Far fewer people are aware of the dangers that migrants from Central and SouthAmerica face on the way to the border – from organized crime rings, Mexican lawenforcement and the failed ...

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Short video by Nicola Chávez-Courtright about the struggle against mining in El Salvador

download the 2010 Fall El Salvador Watch newsletter hereOr click below for the articles included in the November 2010 edition of El Salvador WatchContents: Concerns Arise in First Month of New US Ambassador’s Term FMLN Celebrates 30 Years of Resistance 30 Years Strong, CISPES Model Stands the Test of Time Meet the Leaders ...

@font-face {font-family: "Cambria";}@font-face {font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }On September 22nd, Mari Carmen Aponte, President Obamaappointee, was sworn in as the new US Ambassador to El Salvador, filling thepost evacuated last January after President ...

@font-face {font-family: "Cambria";}@font-face {font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }On October 10th, the FMLN celebrated its 30th anniversarywith a massive mobilization and rally in San Salvador.  More than 250,000 people came fromacross the country, forming ...

by Edy Rees, Boston CISPES  I first became involved with CISPES in the mid-1980s while living in Brooklyn, New York. There was some coverage of CISPES activities on WBAI, listener-sponsored radio, and then I met some folks from CISPES at a city-wide conference sponsored by WBAI and The Guardian, a progressive weekly ...