Also included in this update: Leaked Cables Prove U.S. Intervention in Salvadoran Elections After Court-Ordered Dissolution, Right-Wing Parties Struggle for Survival Labor Unions Fight Decertification Order Top Latin America State Department Official Announces Resignation On Monday, May 30, Spanish judge Eloy Velasco indicted and issued international arrest orders for 20 members of the Salvadoran Armed Forces for the ...

Reflecting on the significance of the visit, Funes, the leftist Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation (FMLN) party  and social movement members concur that Obama's presence definitively disproves the long-time threat by right-wing political parties that the election of a leftist FMLN candidate to the presidency would sever US relations with ...

by Greg Grandin in the Nation March 23, 2011 In El Salvador, on the last leg of his Latin American tour, President Barack Obama paid a highly symbolic visit to the tomb of Archbishop Oscar Romero, shot through the heart as he raised the Eucharist chalice during a mass, in March ...

Also included in this update: FMLN Assumes Presidency of the Legislative Assembly for First Time Largest Construction Union Ousts Corrupt Leadership  OnMarch 22 and 23, President Obama will visit El Salvador to continue forging a strategic regional alliance with the country's first leftist president, Mauricio Funes. This visit disproves the fallacy publicized by ...

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 ...

LASC: Toward a New U.S.-Latin America Foreign Policy The Latin America Solidarity CoalitionCoordinating Committee has adopted the following talking points for useby local activists to educate their communities and influence opinionmakers and elected officials. With a new administration installed inWashington, DC it is time for progressive activists to demand a ...

from: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/10/10/18544031.phpEdited panel discussion with: Yeni Solis,CISPES, native Salvadoran living in San Francisco w/ Alexis Stoumbelis of CISPESfor translation and as moderator; Kiilu Nyasha, former BlackPanther, current activist and radio broadcaster; and Wilson Riles, withthe Black Alliance for Just Immigration. (45 minutes)audio: elsalvadorcr10edit1.mp3MPEG audio at 20.2 MBThe discussion centers around ...

Three bills related to Central Americahave been discussed in recent months in El Salvador.  CISPES?continues to pressureCongress for a just U.S.foreign policy in the region.MeridaInitiative and the ILEA     Two important bills affecting the level offunding for repressive police forces in El Salvador could be signed by thepresident before the end ...

www.lasolidarity.org As Congress enters the final stages to approve the MeridaInitiative, an aid package to Mexico and Central America that seeks to furthermilitarize the region under the guise of the U.S.’s “war on drugs/war onterror,” we find manifold reasons to stand in opposition:1) Money for Central America through the Merida ...