Veterans with disabilities still fighting battles in peacetime
2018 Febrero El Salvador
The Chapultepec Accords that put an end to a dozen years of war were signed 26 years ago this January 16. As a result of that war, the Salvadoran people...
Water for everyone: A struggle for life
2017 Octubre El Salvador
In 1576, Spanish chronicler Juan López de Velasco wrote this about the Río Acelhuate, whose basin contains San Salvador, the capital: “It is said that...
Impunity finally stands trial: The case of Herbert Anaya Sanabria
2017 Julio El Salvador
On October 26, 1987, Herbert Anaya Sanabria, president of the nongovernmental Human Rights Commission of El Salvador (CDHES), was killed by three people...
Supreme Electoral Tribunal under siege
2017 Abril El Salvador
The struggle between those wanting to maintain El Salvador’s social structure and those wanting to transform it has gone through different moments and...
Fiscal Crisis: Between dangers and opportunities
2017 Febrero El Salvador
Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) leader Lorena Peña currently chairs the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly’s Financial Commission after...
The repeal of the Amnesty Law: A bittersweet ruling
2016 Octubre El Salvador
On July 13, the Supreme Court of Justice’s Constitutional Bench announced four rulings of unconstitutionality on its Twitter account, demonstrating...
Political prisoners: “The Fifth Front” 36 years later
2016 Agosto El Salvador
The Political Prisoners’ Committee of El Salvador (COPPES) was formed in September 1980 with a hunger strike in the Santa Tecla prison grounds and in...
The pension system reform is a reversal for the neoliberal model
2016 Mayo El Salvador
If everything was paid, and the pensioner’s card opened all doors, getting old would be real progress, a good ending, a finish with a kiss, sang Joan...
Minimum wage history, struggles, maneuvers and proposals
2016 Marzo El Salvador
When Karl Marx wrote 172 years ago that “Wages are determined through the antagonistic struggle between capitalist and worker,” it was one of the most...
“El Buen Vivir” and the “Laudato Si’”
2015 Diciembre El Salvador
In 2012, while a presidential candidate, Salvador Sánchez Cerén published his book El país que quiero (The country I want), in which he declared...
The steep road to gender equity
2015 Octubre El Salvador
The achievements around women’s rights and gender equality in this country are the fruit of women’s arduous and self-sacrificing struggles throughout...
Resuscitated or newly assassinated in his beatification?
2015 Junio El Salvador
May 23, 35 years after his assassination by a death squad ordered by Major Roberto D’Aubuisson, the founder of the National Republican Alliance (ARENA),...
The Right is trying to use the elections for its claim of a “failed State”
2015 Abril El Salvador
After a three-month campaign, elections were held on March 1 for representatives to the Legislative Assembly and Central American Parliament (Parlacen)...
Progress, but still unpaid debts to the country’s indigenous peoples
2015 Febrero El Salvador
January 22 marked the 83rd anniversary of the 1932 uprising and massacre of indigenous people and peasants. That year, three days after the capture...
Community Policing: A strategic leap for the PNC
2014 Octubre El Salvador
The concept of “community policing” is being presented as a logical police response to the problems of violence and crime affecting many communities...
The second FMLN government gets off to a good start
2014 Julio El Salvador
Salvador Sánchez Cerén, former teachers’ union leader and guerrilla commander during the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Movement’s war of liberation,...
The FMLN won
2014 Abril El Salvador
By 9 pm on election day, March 9, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) had already announced that the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN)...
Why have the lights been turned off at the Archbishopric’s Legal Protection Office?
2013 Noviembre El Salvador
What did José Luis Escobar Alas, the archbishop of San Salvador, close off when he locked the door of the Archbishopric’s Legal Protection Office and...
Has the FMLN government been an economic failure?
2013 Septiembre El Salvador
Just months shy of the March 2014 presidential elections, every topic that appears in the public arena is quickly pounced on as an electoral campaign...
The case of Beatriz: Who gets to decide?
2013 Julio El Salvador
When the issue of abortion and the right to decide are put on the table, everyone turns into a philosopher, theologian, scientist or lawyer, experts...
Thirteen years of joint Venezuela-El Salvador history
2013 Mayo El Salvador
On March 5, at 3 pm local time in El Salvador, we received the news that Latin American leader Hugo Chávez had succumbed to cancer. Four days later...
LaGeo-Enel: Chronicle of an energy highjacking
2013 Marzo El Salvador
The New Year ushered in bad news for El Salvador: on January 8, the Paris Court of Appeals upheld an earlier ruling in favor of the Italian company Enel-Green...
Young people who want to transform the country
2012 Diciembre El Salvador
A national youth movement rooted in the grassroots sectors and able to spark the active participation of young people in the struggle to resolve their...
A reflection on the institutional crisis
2012 Septiembre El Salvador
El Salvador went through an “institutional crisis” between June and August over the makeup of the new Supreme Court of Justice. A third of its 15 members...
Public-private partnerships: Another disguise for privatization
2012 Junio El Salvador
Public-private Partnership schemes “are what we need to push our country forward and overcome the crisis we’re facing,” said President Mauricio Funes...
A reading of the elections
2012 Abril El Salvador
Legislative and municipal elections have a low profile in El Salvador, given that the country is governed by a constitutionally presidentialist tradition...
Mapping the Salvadoran media
2012 Enero El Salvador
An April 1999 study by the Veritas Project to evaluate the media’s participation in that year’s presidential campaign in El Salvador concluded that “the...
The case of the murdered Jesuits: An un-extraditable crime
2011 Septiembre El Salvador
Dictators use selective repressionas an instrument not so so much to eliminate someone deemed particularly dangerous, but rather for the psychological...
What’s behind Decree 743?
2011 Julio El Salvador
The leitmotif of the following story is Decree 743, which the rightwing parties passed on June 2 in a clumsily transparent effort to hobble the actions...
The lights of ALBA on El Salvador’s horizon
2011 Mayo El Salvador
In the first discussions in 1993-1994 to organize an alternative integration project for Latin America—originally called the Bolivarian Alternative for...
Medicines: A Struggle between Rich and Poor
2011 Marzo El Salvador
When any older Salvadoran is asked “How are you?” the most common response is “Fine, because I’m well.” This answer shows that one of the most fundamental...
Funes’ Dangerous Liaisons With the Business Class
2010 Septiembre El Salvador
The crisis between business leaders and the government in El Salvador has been overcome, declared Carlos Enrique Araujo, president of the National Association...
Mauricio Funes’ Successful Balancing Act
2010 Agosto El Salvador
The country awoke on June 21 to the shocking news that a collective microbus had been doused with gas and set afire in the low-income barrio of Mejicanos...
The Labor Movement: Who’s Winning So Far?
2010 Junio El Salvador
May always reminds us of the martyred workers in Haymarket Square who were victims of repression and gave their lives fighting for the 8-hour workday...
Monsignor Romero’s Murder: Thirty Years of Impunity
2010 Abril El Salvador
In his homily of October 27, 1978, Monsignor Romero stated that “only justice can be the root of peace.” Nine months later, in June 1979, in light...
Pacific Rim Mining Company: The Kraken of Cabañas
2010 Enero El Salvador
El Salvador lies along Central America’s Gold Belt. According to First Point Minerals Corp., this valuable belt, which runs from Guatemala down into...
GANA’s Birth Is ARENA’s Loss
2009 Diciembre El Salvador
The problems inside the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) were already quite evident in its widely publicized presidential candidate selection...
The First 100 Days: Successes, Silences, Threats, Blackmail… and Challenges
2009 Octubre El Salvador
They say that the tradition of analyzing a new President’s first 100 days in office began—like many traditions—in the United States, with Franklin Delano...
Aftershocks from Honduras’ Political Earthquake
2009 Agosto El Salvador
The very day after Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was pulled out of bed at machinegun point and sent into exile in Costa Rica, the legislative bench...
Disputing the Underpinnings of Impunity
2009 Junio El Salvador
The fight against corruption was one of the most attractive election promises made by the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) and its candidate...
A Grassroots Drive Pushes ARENA out of Government
2009 Abril El Salvador
On Sunday, March 15, 50,000 Salvadorans poured into the streets surrounding the Alberto Masferrer Plaza of San Salvador to celebrate the electoral triumph...
The Crystal Ball Is Still Cloudy
2009 Enero El Salvador
As a result of negotiations among the smaller political parties led by the National Conciliation Party (PCN) and Walter Araujo, former ARENA National...
Evictions and Megaprojects: Two Sides of the Same Coin
2008 Noviembre El Salvador
Carmelo Cabrera, president of the Association of United Peoples, has endured 36 trials, 6 arrests and 28 days in prison, always under the same charges,...
How to Read ARENA’s Electoral Campaign
2008 Julio El Salvador
In El Salvador, the municipal, legislative and presidential elections only coincide every 15 years. March 2009 will be one such occasion.
The electoral...
Who’s Defending Monsignor Romero?
2008 Enero El Salvador
In March 1983, Brazilian bishop Pedro Casaldaliga wrote in his diary, “There is no way I can understand it, or rather I understand it too well: the photograph...
Business Social Responsibility: Poisoned by Lead and Vested Interests
2007 Noviembre El Salvador
According to the impact evaluations of the free trade agreement known as CAFTA-DR, signed by the Central American countries and the Dominican Republic...
The Democratic Facade Has Fallen Away
2007 Septiembre El Salvador
President Elías Antonio Saca, in a speech on June 1 marking three years in office, vowed that “if they block us, we’ll find another road. If they want...