March 13, 2009 A huge THANK YOU! and Congratulations! to everyone who has participated in advocacy this week by calling the State Department, the Embassy, and Congressional representatives. The campaign has been more successful than any of us expected. Not only did the U.S. State Department issue a statement affirming U.S. neutrality in the El […]
Evangelical Pastor Antonio Bolainez Presents Misinformation to Salvadorans: States that U.S.-El Salvador relations, the well-being of Salvadoran immigrants, and commercial agreements are at risk if the Left wins the March 15th Presidential Elections February 12, 2009 On Thursday February 12, Salvadoran Newspaper El Diario de Hoy reported that Antonio Bolainez, one of President […]
US Embassy denounces use of Obama´s Image in FMLN Campaign Ads after ignoring their use in Ads by the Right. In December 2008, the US- El Salvador Sister Cities Network alerted the US Embassy that ads by the group Fuerza Solidaria included a video of Obama´s Advisor on Latin America, Dan Restrepo, that said […]
By Leigh Hardy The political slogan “Yes We Can” has contextualized my understanding of democracy since I was born, but in its original language of Spanish. During high school, my mother was active in supporting the United Farm Workers movement, where the slogan “Si Se Puede” has its origins. When we visited her small […]
The dirty campaign in El Salvador is worsening. Radio and television ads under the name ¨Fuerza Solidaria¨ have been manipulating statements from US officials such as Barack Obama´s advisor Dan Restrepo, as part of a fear campaign to convince people not to vote for the FMLN. The Fuerza Solidaria has also made ads saying that […]
By Annie Levenson-Falk October 7th, 2008 In recent years, immigration has been a major issue in U.S. politics, and an area in which we may see major change in coming years. In the past, U.S. representatives have threatened that immigration policy could be changed because of the results of Salvadoran elections. Policy decisions like […]
Election of Barack Obama: Time for Hope in El Salvador and Around the World? By Rosa Anaya November 6, 2008 Rosa Anaya is the daughter of Herbert Anaya Sanabria, a Salvadoran human rights lawyer and leader who, on October 26, 1987, was assassinated – gunned down in front of his home in San Salvador in […]
Join us in advocating for free and fair elections in El Salvador With the presidential elections coming up next March and the municipal elections in January, intensity is rising in El Salvador. Mauricio Funes, the presidential candidate for the FMLN, is leading Rodrigo Avila of the right wing party ARENA by as much as 15% […]
U.S Intervention in the 2009 Salvadoran Elections: Will history repeat itself? August, 2008 As El Salvador prepares for the March 2009 presidential elections, memories of U.S. intervention in the country have not been forgotten. From the hundreds of millions of dollars that the Reagan administration sent to the Salvadoran military to suppress the guerrilla forces […]