School is Out for the SOA
Thousands of students, human rights defenders, and religious leaders held a large-scale rally at the gates of the School of the Americas (SOA), currently known as the “school of coups,” during the...
View ArticleThe 2014 Presidential Elections in El Salvador and the Transnational Electorate
On January 24, 2013, the Salvadoran national assembly passed a law giving the Salvadoran diaspora the right to vote, starting with the upcoming 2014 presidential elections. This long awaited measure...
View ArticleDramatic Reduction in Homicides in El Salvador—David Munguía Payés Answers...
On March 15, 2013, the Salvadoran Minister of Justice and Public Security, David Munguía Payés, held a conversatorio (conversation) with a group of Salvadoran community leaders at the Salvadoran...
View ArticleRE: “U.S./El Salvador: A Common Ground for Partnership”
Dear Editor, In “U.S./El Salvador: A Common Ground for Partnership,” Ruben Zamora, El Salvadoran Ambassador to the United States, elaborates on the societal and economic improvements El Salvador has...
View ArticleCatholicism’s Heavy Hand: “Beatriz” and Abortion in El Salvador
On May 29, the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of El Salvador ruled to deny a 22-year old pregnant woman afflicted with lupus and kidney disease and known by the pseudonym “Beatriz,” a...
View ArticleBetween Corporate Power and Human Rights in El Salvador: Public-Private...
Although ostensibly governed from the left, El Salvador has adopted several initiatives to strengthen transnational corporate privileges, leaving human rights increasingly vulnerable to violation. Two...
View ArticleP3 Legislation in El Salvador: An Aggressive Reassertion of Neoliberal...
Over the past several weeks, El Salvador has begun to restructure its port and electricity services as the first consequence of the newly enacted Ley...
View ArticleTutela Legal Closed in El Salvador Amid Concern Over the Fate of Valuable...
The Council on Hemispheric Affairs is deeply concerned about the closing of Tutela Legal and expects that the utmost care will be taken to preserve...
View ArticleThe February 2014 Presidential Race In El Salvador: A High Stakes Election
The February 2014 presidential elections in El Salvador will determine whether the country continues to embrace the social democratic orientation of the incumbent FMLN or...
View ArticleHuman Rights Archives Under Attack in El Salvador
More than a month after the Catholic Archdiocese of San Salvador closed down the office of El Salvador’s most important human rights archives, Tutela Legal,...
View ArticleWater and Sovereignty throughout the Western Hemisphere
While water issues are quite complex, among the most common themes running through the treatment of water in the Western Hemisphere are issues of...
View ArticleRE: Remittances to El Salvador Continue to Increase
Dear Editor, In the article, “Crecen remesas de salvadoreños en EE.UU.” (El Tiempo Latino, Jan. 19) the author explores the continual increase of monetary remittances...
View ArticleELECTIONS IN EL SALVADOR: ARENA’S DANGEROUS GAMBIT
Yesterday’s Presidential election in El Salvador marked a turning point in the country’s history. This election closes the chapter on the country’s post-conflict political era...
View ArticleEL SALVADOR’S PRESIDENT-ELECT SÀNCHEZ CERÉN CALLS FOR DIALOG
On March 16, El Salvador’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), officially confirmed that the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) had indeed won a hard fought...
View ArticleRENASE to Show Roque Dalton Documentary at the Gala Theater
National Network of Salvadorans in the Exterior (RENASE) to Show Roque Dalton Documentary at the Gala Theater, 3333 14th Street, NW Washington DC 20010, May...
View ArticleGeosecurity 101: Washington and Moscow‘s Military Bases in Latin America
For a PDF version of this report, click here In spite of ongoing tensions in Ukraine, which have seriously soured relations between Russia and the...
View ArticleFormer Salvadoran Guerrilla Commander becomes President of Embattled Country...
After 20 years of rule by U.S.-backed right-wing governments, El Salvador’s Leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) has finally become more successful on the...
View ArticleSalvadoran President Rejects Gang Truce, Security Policy Remains Unclear
The June 1 inauguration of Salvador Sánchez Cerén, a former guerrilla combatant, as president of El Salvador was undoubtedly a historic moment for the Central...
View ArticleDestined to be the Biggest of Wars—the Humanitarian Crisis of Immigration
Alicja Magdalena Duda, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs The people of Central America are trapped in a zero-sum game of merciless poverty,...
View ArticleEl Salvador Launches Public Education Campaign to Curtail Emigration of Children
Frederick B. Mills, Guest Scholar at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Professor of Philosophy at Bowie State University Four to five hundred children leave El...
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