Article published in NACLA, North American Congress on Latin America by Judith Brisson With shouts of “Presente por la patria” (“Committed to the homeland”), spirits were high on Sunday night amongst right-wing supporters at the Feria Nacional polling center in San Salvador, where international observers watched the vote count in El Salvador’s ...

From the 2012 Elections Blog With over 95% of the ballots counted, the results of the March 2012 legislative and municipal elections are in. Legislative elections results The right-wing ARENA party has recuperated a significant number of seats in the Legislative Assembly, winning 33 seats out of 84 seats, one more seat than ...

While Joe Biden was visiting Central America to push the old, failed solutions of militarization and neoliberalism that serve the international 1%, the CISPES delegation witnessed a new road being built by the FMLN.  One of the centerpieces of the FMLN’s work to expand access to health care are the Equipos ...

CISPES is pleased to announce our new elections blog, which will follow the Municipal and Legislative elections occurring on March 11 in all 262 of El Salvador's municipalities. Receive the most recent elections updates from our observers by following the blog! http://cispes.org/elections2012  

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 Wednesday, January 11, brigades from all parties took to the streets to post campaign materials for their parties and candidates on the first day of the official two-month campaign period for the March 11 elections. The following morning, San Salvador mayor and the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) candidate ...

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 ...

With little over two months remaining until the March 2012 legislative and municipal elections in El Salvador, the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) remains in the lead. A recent poll from the University of Central America shows that 29.6 percent of voters plan to vote for the FMLN, while 24.2 ...

On December 12, a group of Republican Senators in the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee effectively filibustered to block the confirmation of Mari Carmen Aponte to continue in her current role as US Ambassador to El Salvador, though Senate Majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) left the door open to bring the ...

On November 7, the Supreme Court forced the Legislative Assembly back to the drawing board to re-write the election rules again, keeping the process for the elections set for just 4 months away on shaky ground. The Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) declared unconstitutional various electoral reforms approved by the ...