March 18, 2009 U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities led an observation mission with the Social Initiative for Democracy for the March 15th, 2009 Presidential Elections in El Salvador. The mission included 24 International and Salvadoran observers and observed in the municipalities of El Puerto, La Libertad; Arcatao Chalatenango; Cinquera, Cabanas; Tecoluca, San Vicente and Suchitoto, Cuscatlán […]
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 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 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 […]
Military Occupation in Suchitoto CommunitiesThreatens Voters Before Elections January 6th, 2009 On Tuesday December 16th 2008, 150 soldiers armed with heavy artillery entered the community of el Papaturro, in the zone of La Bermuda, Suchitoto. The soldiers set up a military camp and stayed in the community, then moved to the neighbouring community […]
ARENA Presidential Candidate Joins Military Veterans March, Part of a Strategy to Create Fear that Military will Rebel if FMLN Candidate becomes President September 9th, 2008 This Sunday, the Association of Military Veterans (ASVEM), comprised of ex-military members from the Salvadoran Civil War, marched in San Salvador joined by Rodrigo Avila, the presidential candidate for […]
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 […]