Millennium Challenge Finances New Industrial Corridor, Criticism against Current Projects Continues
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 ...
New Minister Continues Misguided Iron-Fist Policies, Appoints Officials Investigated for Corruption in US-El Salvador Anti-Gang Unit
Following the controversial appointment at the end of last year of ex-General David Munguía Payés as Minister of Public Security, the new military officers in charge of Public Security have begun revealing the plans they promise will reduce the country´s ...
Video Interview: FMLN Legislator Gives Insider Perspective on the 2012 Elections
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 ...
A Step Forward in Justice for 1989 Jesuit Massacre
In a roundabout development in the search for justice in the 1989 massacre of 6 Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter by the Salvadoran military during El Salvador's Civil War, one of the accused perpetrators - ex-Colonel Inocente Orlando ...
Working Class Sees First Progressive Tax Reform in Decades
This important news from December slipped through the cracks while CISPES rushed to follow changes in the security cabinet.
After twenty years of protesting tax reforms that only shifted the tax burden onto the poor and working class and off the ...
Elections Bulletin #3: San Salvador Municipal Employees Attack FMLN Campaigners on Day 2 of Campaign
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 ...
