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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Visits in June and July from leaders representing the Honduran coup d’etat and resistance movement surrounded Honduras’s reincorporation to the Integration System of Central America (SICA) and sparked controversy among Salvadorans. Coup Mastermind Comes to San Salvador On June 22, coup mastermind Roberto Micheletti visited El Salvador, reportedly saying his presence “was not to divide, […]
All of us need to stay updated about the coup in Honduras. Check out the following resources about the Coup and then TAKE ACTION. To see a graphic history of the coup in Honduras, take a look at: The Honduran Coup: A Graphic History To read about the U.S. Position on […]
by U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities The ARENA party, recently ousted from the Executive Branch after almost 20 years controlling the Presidency, finds itself in the midst of internal divisions. On October 12th, the day after its General Assembly, 12 ARENA representatives to the Legislative Assembly announced their discontent with ARENA leadership and stated that […]
ARENA, the conservative party which ruled El Salvador for twenty years before its defeat in presidential elections in March 2009, has an internal rebellion on its hands. As described in El Faro, twelve of ARENA’s 32 deputies in the National Assembly have declared themselves independent of the party leadership. They are demanding 2 seats on […]
Source: The Guardian and Upside Down World Last Friday an agreement was reached between the de facto regime in Honduras, which took power in a military coup on 28 June, and the elected president Manuel Zelaya, for the restoration of democracy there. US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, in announcing what she called an historic […]