Sanchez Cerén – El Salvador’s Vice President and 2014 presidential candidate for the FMLN party – drew a crowd of protestors this past Monday when he visited the Long Island town of Freeport, New York. Vice President Cerén was in town to celebrate Salvadoran American Day with the over 100,000 Salvadorans that live on Long… Continue reading Salvadoran VP Sanchez Cerén Greeted by Protesters in Freeport, NY
READ IN SPANISH The government of the United States, like other entities with transnational reach—such as the World Bank, The International Monetary Fund, and the European Union—have worked for decades to foment economic development and poverty reduction in “third world” or “developing” countries”. The US state has demonstrated a special interest in the development and… Continue reading What has happened with “Fomilenio II” in El Salvador?
Monday was Sanchez Cerén’s first full day on the job as El Salvador’s President and one of his first acts was to fulfill a campaign promise to join Petrocaribe, a Venezuelan program that sells oil to member countries under favorable conditions. Petrocaribe will allow El Salvador to purchase oil and pay 50% of the cost… Continue reading El Salvador Joins Petrocaribe
Yesterday, Salvador Sanchez Cerén took office as the new president of El Salvador, becoming the first former FMLN militant from El Salvador’s Civil War to ascend to the presidency. President Sanchez Cerén’s political victory has not been the glorious triumph many wanted for the former guerrilla leader. The runoff election against the ARENA’s Norman Quijano… Continue reading Crime Continues to Rise in El Salvador
IUDOP released the results of a new survey and FMLN presidential candidate Sanchez Cerén seems to have moved ahead in the polls with 36% support. Former Salvadoran President Tony Saca, who is representing a Unity party, is second with 28% support, and ARENA candidate Norman Quijano is in third place with 25%. If there were… Continue reading Latest Presidential Polls out of El Salvador
On May 2nd, organizations and communities representing thousands of people from the Bajo Lempa region of Jiquilisco, Usulután held a press conference in San Salvador to denounce the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), the Law on Public Private Partnerships (P3 Law), and the tourism projects they promise to support. The Salvadoran labor movement also held a… Continue reading Momentum Against the MCC and other U.S. Policies May be Building
In January 2001, El Salvador began the dollarization process, which changed the official currency from the Salvadoran Colon to the U.S dollar. According to an article posted on Tim’s El Salvador Blog, former President Francisco Flores and his Minister of Finance, Manuel Enrique Hinds, made the change in order to keep interest levels low, control… Continue reading Dollarization: “A Sack of Unfulfilled Promises”
COENA, the ARENA’s executive committee, announced that it has selected San Salvador mayor Norman Quijano as their 2014 presidential candidate. Other possible ARENA candidates included former Vice President Ana Vilma de Escobar, Diputado Edwin Zamora, and former Chancellor Francisco Laínez. Quijano is a 64 year-old dentist from Santa Ana. His political career began in 1994… Continue reading ARENA Nominates Norman Quijano
Friday afternoon we posted about last week’s protest of Sanchez Cerén’s visit to Freeport, NY. In the post we mentioned recent op/ed pieces published by the Wall Street Journal were a little hyperbolic in their discussion of the FMLN and the threats against democracy. The author of those pieces – Mary O’Grady – published another… Continue reading Another Misleading O’Grady/Wall Street Journal Article about El Salavdor
As of last week, Sánchez Cerén appears to be the FMLN’s candidate for the 2014 presidential election. The current Vice President went as far to say that he was the FMLN candidate and stepped down as the Minister of Education. Analysts, and even high profile members of the FMLN, agree that Sánchez Cerén’s prospects for… Continue reading The FMLN Chooses a Weak Candidate for the 2014 Presidential Elections
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