**Take Action to demand that the U.S. government stop denying visas to opposition voices!**On Thursday 20, the U.S. Embassy in El Salvador denied Salvadoran unionleader Maria de los Angeles Pleitez Carcamo a visa to come on aspeaking tour of the U.S. Pleitez is scheduled to participate inCISPES’s “We ...

Sister-Cities and CISPES Action AlertDemand the Immediate Release of Political Prisonersin El Salvador!National Call-in Day Monday, July 30Theprotestors who were arrested on July 2 in Suchitoto,El Salvadorare now being tried under the new “anti-terrorism” law, a law passed with fullpraise from the UnitedStatesgovernment. This draconian law defines different forms of ...

Urgent: Verdict is out! Demonstration held at Public Hearing for 14 people captured in Suchitoto The 14 detainees and CRIPDES leaders were tried to on Saturday in a Special Tribunal for Acts of Terrorism. Judge Ana Lucila Fuentes de Paz dismissed the charges for 1 detainee, and decreed ...

LASORGANIZACIONES ABAJO FIRMANTES, A LA COMUNIDAD NACIONAL E INTERNACIONAL, CONMUCHA PREOCUPACIÓN E INDIGNACIÓN DENUNCIAMOS:LOS HECHOS: El día lunes 2 de julio, el Presidente de laRepública tenía programado el lanzamiento de la Política Nacional de Descentralizacióny la inauguración de un proyecto de agua, con presencia de las y los Alcaldes,Gobernadores ...

- A non-violent protest had been organized inSuchitoto for Monday morning, July 2nd, 2007. The protest was organized by the Association for the Development of ElSalvador (CRIPDES), its regional branch in Suchitoto (PROGRESO), and the peopleof the organized rural communities in that municipality, as well as the theUnion of Water Workers ...

This is a big week in Congress! TheHouse of Representatives will vote to cut funding to the School of the Americas(SOA) as part of the Foreign Operations appropriations bill. The bill alsoincludes funding for the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) in ElSalvador.CISPES has organized a national call-in day for today ...

Salvadoran Government Threatens to Jail Movement Leaders on Trumped Up Terrorism ChargesTake Action to Stop U.S. Support for the Repression in El SalvadorThe Salvadoran National Vendors Movement is facing increased politicalpersecution from President Saca’s government through the National CivilPolice (PNC) and the Ministry of Security. The vendors are beingcharged ...

Take Action to Stop U.S. Support for Repression in El SalvadorSalvadoran police attack market vendors on May 12On Saturday, May 12 the Salvadoran National Civilian Police (PNC) provoked violence and chaos in downtown San Salvador, targeting the organized CD/DVD Vendors Movement. Early in the afternoon, the Finance Unit of the ...

CISPES Action Alert - April 26, 2007  Inlate March, representatives of SOA Watch and CISPES visited the InternationalLaw Enforcement Academy (ILEA) in SanSalvador, the first international visit of the newfacility. The School of the Americas (SOA) is the notorious training ground forLatin American human rights abusers, and people in El ...

CISPES ACTION ALERT - March/April, 2007download formatted version hereMarch 24 marks the 27th anniversary of the brutal murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero, the tenacious defender of El Salvador‘s poor and marginalized majority who was gunned down by an operative of the U.S.-backed Salvadoran death squads while giving mass. Twenty seven ...