Category Archives: Politics

COHA Reports on “The Slide Towards Re-Militarization” in El Salvador

Social Movement Organizations File Lawsuit Against Unconstitutional Appointments of Ex-Generals  On February 21,  a group of Salvadoran human rights organizations submittted a lawsuit alleging that the recent appointments of two former generals to the posts of Minister of Justice and Public Safety,  and CEO of the National Police are unconsitutional. During the rally and press […]

Removing the Veil: El Salvador Apologizes for State Violence

January 17, 2012 From the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) On Monday morning, January 16, crowds gathered in the small community of El Mozote to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Peace Accords that ended El Salvador´s 12-year-long civil war. El Mozote, in the rural department of Morazán, is the […]

Demanding an End to Impunity on the 30th Anniversary of the Mozote Massacre

Salvadoran and international organizations held a press conference on Monday December 12th to mark the 30th Anniversary of the Mozote Massacre and denounce the impunity and silence surrounding this case and other cases of human rights abuses and violence committed during El Salvador’s 12 year civil war. The organizations that signed on to the statement […]

Salvadoran Military Officials Facing Possible Extradition for Murder of Jesuits

Diario Digital Contrapunto Reports: Military Leaders of the Civil War in Jail August 8th, 2011 By Hugo Sanchez / Gerardo Arbaiza SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador woke this morning shocked after learning that the military leaders who led the army for much of the civil war (1980-1992), are imprisoned in a military facility which before and […]

Salvadoran Radio Association Condemns Murder of Honduran Journalist

by the Association of Participatory Radios and Programs of El Salvador (ARPAS) July 15th, 2011 Yesterday Nery Jeremias Orellana was killed , director of the Community radio station, Radio Joconguera in the municipality of Candelaria in southern Honduras near the border with El Salvador.The young journalist was also a correspondent of Radio Progreso, located in […]

The OAS meets in San Salvador Amid Protests Against Human Rights Abuses

On June 5th, 6th and 7th, El Salvador hosted the annual General Assembly of the Organization of American States. While representatives from 34 nations met in the La Feria Internacional in San Salvador and at nearby hotels to discuss security issues facing the region, Salvadorans and Hondurans protested the return of the post-coup government of […]

Salvadoran Social Movement Calls for Fiscal Reform

Statement from the MPR-12 Alliance, (Popular Resistance Movement of October 12th), an alliance of Salvadoran social organizations that came together to resist the approval of CAFTA in 2005.   In El Salvador, Fiscal Problems are the Most Contradictory and Important to Address Our country is in one of the most difficult moments with regard to […]

New Honduran “Anti-Terrorism” Law is More of the Same

On November 17th, the National Congress in Honduras passed its very own Anti-Terrorism Law. The new legislation, called the Alvarez Law, was presented to Congress by Oscar Alvarez, Minister of Security under Pepe Lobo Sosa, leader of the coup regime. Alvarez is the nephew of General Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, leader of the so-called 316 Battalion […]

Honduran Government Forces Attack Musicians and Peaceful Protesters

Post-coup repression in Honduras reached a new low last week with the targeting of a concert of the band Café Guancasco, a musical favorite of the coup resistance movement. It took place on September 15, anniversary of the independence of Central America from the Spanish Empire. For the second year in a row, the holiday […]

Background of threats toward Hector Soto

1-      Prior to the November elections, Hector’s telephones were repeatedly tapped and conversations interrupted and information removed from his cell phone. Men driving in unmarked cars and in police uniform took photographs of him entering his residence. 2-      In July and now August, the web networking in his office has been sabotaged and the phone […]