On Thursday afternoon, with 59 votes, the deputies of the Legislative Assembly overcame the presidential veto to the decree that sought life insurance for health personnel attending the COVID-19 pandemic (X). Decree 620, approved by the Legislative Assembly on April 1st, contemplates the delivery of personal protection supplies to health employees, training to treat patients […]
By Sister Cities Volunteer and Elections Observer Cori Ring The weeks leading up to the first round of elections here were intense, full of last minute campaigning and fresh waves of fear spurred by the spiking crime and murder rate in the new year. To hear ARENA tell it, the crime wave was just […]
January 11th , 2013 by Alexandra Early On December 12, 2012, 12 young people were arrested in the poor community of El Progreso 3, in the northeastern part of San Salvador. Dressed all in black with their faces covered, police from the much-feared Anti-Gang Unit stormed the community in the middle of night, going […]
On November 20, twenty-four organizations from the U.S. and Canada sent a letter to the San Salvador City Council and to the Office of the President of El Salvador in which they denounced and demanded justice in the case of violent evictions of vendors executed by the Mayor of San Salvador, Norman Quijano. The page […]
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, […]
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 […]