Increased US Pressure Pushes through P3 Law in Legislative Assembly
US Ambassador Mari Carmen Aponte publicly calls on Legislative Assembly to approve P3 law.
On Monday, May 20th, the proposed Public Private Partnership (P3) law came up for debate in the Treasury Commission of the National Legislative Assembly in the ...

Public standoff between ARENA’s TSE magistrate and candidate highlights internal divisions
ARENA TSE magistrate Walter Araujo (left) and ARENA presidential candidate Norman Quijano (right)
Walter Araujo, the magistrate representing the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) party on El Salvador’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), has announced he will not support Norman Quijano, ...

Supreme Court Declares Public Security Minister’s Naming Unconstitutional
Former generals Francisco Salinas and David Munguía Payés.
Today, the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court ruled that the appointments of David Munguía Payés as Minister of Public Security and Justice, and Francisco Ramón Salinas as Director of the National ...

Ministry of Health Rejects Institute of Legal Medicine Recommendation against Abortion for Beatriz
"Beatriz has the right to live."
On Tuesday, May 7, at the request of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court, the Institute of Legal Medicine (IML) – the state forensics institute – released a medical evaluation of Beatriz that ...

Call on El Salvador’s Supreme Court to permit Beatriz to receive a life-saving abortion!
"Trying to save lives should be LEGAL!"
Beatriz is a 22-year old mother who is 20 weeks pregnant with a fetus that has developed without a brain and will most likely not survive birth. Due to serious health conditions, Beatriz's ...

For Immediate Release: US unions join May Day March in El Salvador to reject US privatization push
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Alexis Stoumbelis, Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador
Phone: +011 503 7383-4944
E-mail: alexis@cispes.org
US unions join May Day March in El Salvador to reject US privatization push
May 3, 2013
SAN SALVADOR – An estimated 80,000 Salvadorans representing ...

Solidarity Delegates Accompany 80,000-Strong San Salvador May Day March!
CISPES Labor Solidarity Delegates marching on May 1 with banner: "US Workers in Struggle against Privatization!"
Yesterday, the organized Salvadoran left came out in force in celebration of May 1, International Workers Day. Over 80,000 members of labor, student, peasant, ...

Take Solidarity Action with US Labor for International Workers Day!
Join US Labor and Take Action against Anti-Worker, Anti-Union, Pro-Privatization Legislation in El Salvador!
While thousands of people take to the streets for immigrant and workers' rights in the US, 70,000+ Salvadorans and CISPES delegates are marching in honor of May Day, ...

Action Alert: Stand up for Democracy & Sovereignty in Venezuela!
Tell the US to Recognize the Legitimate Presidency of Maduro in Venezuela!
John Kerry, Latin America is NOT the United States Government's "Backyard"
President Maduro after taking the presidential oath on April 19.
In the name of REAL democracy and national sovereignty, ...

Right-wing post-electoral violence leaves 7 dead in Venezuela, ARENA legislator implicated in destabilization
FMLN leader Nidia Díaz speaks at a gathering in El Salvador awaiting Venezuelan election results. (Photo: Diario CoLatino)
(Note: Since this blog entry was published, the death count has risen to nine and the number of injuries to 78 as ...








