Tell the US to Recognize the Legitimate Presidency of Maduro in Venezuela! John Kerry, Latin America is NOT the  United States Government's "Backyard" President Maduro after taking the presidential oath on April 19. In the name of REAL democracy and national sovereignty, we denounce the position of the United States government, currently ...

Whether Mitt Romney or Barack Obama wins in November it is  hard to say that either candidate is a good choice for people who care about economic and social justice in Latin America. “If El Salvador becomes another Latin platform for advancing an anti-American agenda, it will negatively impact future levels ...

Though Salvadorans will not hit the polls for another year and a half, their election season has begun in both El Salvador and the US. The two largest parties have named their presidential candidates: the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) will run the country’s current Vice-President, Salvador Sánchez ...

More coverage on the partnership between Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and wealthy Salvadoran families who funded the death squads and their political vehicle, the hard-right Nationalist Republican Alliance, ARENA, during El Salvador's Civil War from 1980-1992. The ARENA party held the Salvadoran presidency from 1989-2009, until the leftist Farabundo ...

Mitt Romney Started Bain Capital With Money From Families Tied To Death Squads Published in the Huffington Post by Ryan Grim and Cole Stangler In 1983, Bill Bain asked Mitt Romney to launch Bain Capital, a private equity offshoot of the successful consulting firm Bain & Company. After some initial reluctance, Romney agreed. ...

Following the May 1st inauguration of the mayors and city councils elected in last March’s elections, unions are reporting unjustified mass firings of municipal employees by newly-elected mayors from the right wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) party.  The Union Federation of Municipal Workers of El Salvador (FESITRAMES) report that, in ...

Published in May 2012 issue of  Z Magazine By Lisa Fuller & Janae Choquette Reading any of the mainstream newspapers in El Salvador, you’d think that the leftist Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation (FMLN) party had been soundly defeated in March’s mid-term legislative and municipal elections. The truth is more complicated. ...

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 ...

PRESS RELEASE US citizens present petition signatures to US Embassy in San Salvador, demand an end to US promotion of militarization in Central America Contact:  Alexis Stoumbelis in Washington, DC (202) 521-2510 ext. 205 March 15, 2012 San Salvador, El Salvador A group of US citizens visiting El Salvador presented the following statement to the ...

by Cory Fischer-Hoffman, published on Upside Down World The Climate of Salvadoran Elections By 1 p.m. in the afternoon on Sunday, the sun was beating down hard on the polling center in Metapán, a mid-sized town in El Salvador just 15 kilometers south of the Guatemalan border. While there was nothing strange about ...