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El Salvador’s right wing has closed ranks to shield the nation’s notoriously conservative media companies from investigations, voting on August 14 in the National Legislative Assembly to exempt the media and advertising agencies from certain measures in a ...
Father Antonio Rodriguezphoto: elsalvador.com
The July 30th arrest of popular Spanish priest Father Antonio Rodriguez (“Father Toño”) in his home in Mejicanos, El Salvador, has drawn protest from social movement groups and accusations of political persecution.
Father Toño has lived in ...
Equipo Maiz, a popular education organization in El Salvador, illustrates the urgent need for tax reforms
On July 31, El Salvador’s National Legislative Assembly passed a package of tax reforms aimed at shifting the fiscal burden from the nation’s poor ...
July 7, 2014, Murrieta, Calif. Photo: Yahoo! News. More at: migrationisbeautiful.com
Here at CISPES, we’ve been reading the news about kids arriving from Central America and Mexico with a mix of heartbreak and anger, not only because of the racist ...
On Friday afternoon, as President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met at the White House with the presidents of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador to discuss the increasing numbers of Central American children crossing the border into the ...
image: Equipo Maiz
In recent weeks, the cost of beans, a staple of the Salvadoran diet, has increased by 67% due to market speculation in what appears to be a deliberate destabilization tactic against the leftist Sánchez Cerén administration by ...
According to official reports, 52,000 children have been apprehended at the US border since October 2013, the majority from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Many make the perilous journey in order to reunite with family from whom they have been ...
This article reposted from: The International Union League for Brand Responsibility
Here, we translate a report from the El Salvador-based Center for Labor Studies & Support (CEAL in Spanish) on an important victory by ex-workers of Manufacturas Del Río. As CEAL had reported previously, the ...
Salvadoran feminist and women’s organizations are waging an international campaign demanding a pardon for the 17 women currently incarcerated in El Salvador for abortion, in hopes of challenging the country’s harsh anti-abortion laws and beginning to change the anti-choice views ...
Popular pressure from El Salvador and the US appears to have succeeded in forcing the United States to back down from its campaign to undermine El Salvador’s efforts to support impoverished family farmers and advance towards food sovereignty and security.
For ...