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 ...
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 ...
2012 Elections Blog
February 29, 2012
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
Millennium Challenge Finances New Industrial Corridor, Criticism against Current Projects Continues
February 17, 2012
President Mauricio Funes announced that the country will begin a second stage of projects financed by the Millenium Challenge Corporation (MCC) in November 2012. The MCC, a public-private development agency, was created by the US Congress in 2004 to provide grants to poor countries as incentives for political change. It ...
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 ...
Elections Bulletin #3: San Salvador Municipal Employees Attack FMLN Campaigners on Day 2 of Campaign
January 27, 2012
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 ...
Take Action NOW Against the Re-Militarization of El Salvador
January 26, 2012
In a major cabinet shakeup, El Salvador’s President Mauricio Funes has effectively removed all high-ranking members of his public security cabinet who are linked to the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). Their replacements, including several high-ranking military officers, indicate a disturbing trend toward the militarization of El Salvador’s public ...
FMLN Swept from Public Security Cabinet, Replaced by Officials and Military Officers Close to the US
January 24, 2012
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On Monday January 23, the Funes administration named retired general Francisco Ramón Salinas as the new director of El Salvador's National Civil Police (PNC), replacing former Director Carlos Ascencio and thus removing the last high-ranking member of the public security ...
Video from the “War on Drugs” in El Salvador Virtual Delegation
January 21, 2012
On January 21, 2012 CISPES hosted a conversation with Roger Blandino Nerio, Mayor of the Municipality of Mejicanos, about the effects of the "War on Drugs" in El Salvador.
The US backed "War on Drugs" has devastated Colombia and Mexico and is now being expanded to Central America with similar consequences. ...
NACLA Article: ‘Removing the Veil’: El Salvador Apologizes for State Violence on 20th Anniversary of Peace Accords
January 17, 2012
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‘Removing the Veil’: El Salvador Apologizes for State Violence on 20th Anniversary of Peace Accords
Jan 17 2012
by Leah Wilson ...
Elections Bulletin #2: Two months before election, reforms continue, San Salvador race heats up
January 9, 2012
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 ...