CRIPDES Participates in First Economic and Social Council Representatives from El Salvador’s social movement, business sector and officials from Mauricio Funes’s government participated in the inauguration of El Salvador’s first Economic and Social Council (CES) on September 4th. The idea of the Economic and Social Council was a part of the 1992 Peace Accords that […]
The situation for political and social leaders in the Department of Cabanas has worsened since Marcelo Rivera’s disappearance and murder in early July. The week of July 27th, 2009, three to four journalists from Radio Victoria, a local radio station that was reporting on Rivera’s disappearance, received intensifying death threats. On July 28th, Father Luis […]
In his first two weeks in office, Mauricio Funes and his government ministries have begun to expose the results of 20 years of ARENA governing and look for ways to respond to that corruption. Phantom Salaries and Overspending Uncovered The FMLN has found an alarming number of irregularities in the former ARENA government ministries. […]
On March 15th, when the announcement that Mauricio Funes had won the presidential race was publicized, Salvadoran communities overflowed with excitement and celebration. In the coming days, people breathed a collective sigh of relief, as the historic task of electing the first Left-wing president of El Salvador had been successfully completed. Since then, CRIPDES and […]
Written by USESSC Election Observer and COHA Fellow Kira Vinke Mauricio Funes’ victory in the Salvadoran presidential election on March 15 marked what could be an important alteration in the country’s politics. After two decades of often fierce right-wing rule, the former guerrillas of the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) defeated the […]
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 […]
March 16, 20098:00 am The wait is over. After almost 20 years of an ARENA government and the FMLN being the opposition, things have changed. Yesterday the Salvadoran people went to the polls in impressive numbers to elect Mauricio Funes as the next president of El Salvador. With the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) reporting 99.4% […]
The past three months have been tense in the municipality of Cinquera, as community organizers face numerous threats to their daily work. Known as one of the most calm and safe municipalities in the country, it has become a target by a Right Wing campaign to degrade the community and provoke violence. December 2008: […]
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 Arthur Brice, CNN http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/01/19/el.salvador.election/ Tallies from Sunday’s nationwide voting showed El Salvador’s main leftist party losing its hold on the capital but opening a lead Monday in the Legislative Assembly. Violeta Menjivar, the incumbent mayoral candidate of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, or FMLN, did not concede defeat in the mayor’s […]