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 […]
By Sebastian Dario Last week the Canadian company Pacific Rim Mining Corp escalated their tactics for putting pressure on the Salvadoran government to administer exploitation permits for open-pit cyanide gold mining in El Salvador by filing a Notice of Intent (NOI) against the Salvadoran government under the Central American-Dominican Republic-United States Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA). […]
February 19th at an Initial Hearing scheduled in Suchitoto under the new accusations of “Public Disorder” and “Aggravated Damages,” the Judge dropped all charges and set the 14 defendants free! Preliminary reports describe that the Attorney General’s office neglected to present official accusations and sufficient evidence, and district attorneys were not present at the hearing […]