FMLN supporters celebrate the popular victory Sunday night
Just after 1:30am this morning, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal announced the final count from Sunday's elections, giving a decisive victory to the leftist FMLN party over right-wing ARENA (50.11% to 49.89%).
Over the past three ...
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It’s hard to believe that only two days have passed since the FMLN’s thrilling victory on Sunday night – so much has happened in the meantime. The right-wing is moving swiftly to derail the democratic process and stop Salvador Sanchez ...
In the Face of an Expected Election Defeat, El Salvador’s Right-wing ARENA Party ‘Prepared for War’ - From Upsidedownworld.org
Dancing to the festive sounds of cumbia and ska music, thousands of Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) supporters celebrated the expected ...
CISPES and other solidarity organizations are maintaining a separate blog to report on the elections.
Please visit the elections blog for the most recent news directly from the international elections observation teams that are on the ground in El Salvador.
http://2014electionsblog.wordpress.com/
Dear Friend,
Here in sunny San Salvador, we are waiting for our last election observers to arrive! Thanks to the support of people like you, CISPES was able to quickly mobilize another strong delegation to accompany the Salvadoran people as they ...
The web of corruption woven throughout past right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) administrations, in which former President Francisco Flores (1999-2004) was recently caught, continues to widen. In separate cases, a number of high-ranking officials from the Tony Saca administration (2004-2009) ...
photo: Vic Hinterlang
The following are selections from the El Salvador 2014 Elections Blog: News and International Observer Reports from El Salvador's 2014 Presidential Election. For previously posted and ongoing elections coverage, visit the blog here.
ARENA and Allies Turn to Red-Baiting and Threats: With ...
Ex-President Flores in a Legislative Assembly hearingphoto: Salvador Sagastizado
Ex-President (1999-2004) Francisco “Paco” Flores, of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) party, has been embroiled in perhaps the most significant scandal of the 2014 presidential electoral campaigns with devastating effects ...
A CISPES international observer is interviewed for a Salvadoran news program.
One of CISPES’ primary objectives during our round one international observer delegation (January 25th-February 5th) was to generate quality, in-depth media coverage of the Salvadoran elections. Our 70+ observers ...