Category: El Salvador
The leaders of the shithole country would oversee the murder of 80,000 people and 8,000 disappeared in El Salvador
Yevgeniya Yatsenko: Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining BanEl Salvador’s activists proved that a national consensus on environmentalism can be forged one town at a time
Pedro Cabezas: Victory Over Irresponsible MiningAfter a long struggle, El Salvador just proved that with enough civil society support, even a very poor country can stand up to powerful global mining firms
Luke Walsh-Mellet: More Repression, More Fightback! El Salvador’s Labor Movement Defends the Minimum WageOn January 1, workers in El Salvador won a big increase in the minimum wage—in some cases doubling their pay.
Samantha Pineda: Feminist Movements Challenge El Salvador’s Total Abortion BanEl Salvador’s total ban on abortion has horrific consequences for tens of thousands of Salvadoran women. Feminist movements are demanding reforms
Robin Broad: El Salvador Lessons for the TPP FightThe executives of a global mining corporation assumed it would be easy to get their way in Cabañas, a rural region of northern El Salvador. They were wrong
Thirty-five years after its founding, El Salvador’s historic Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) is set to hold its first national congress at the end of October.
Michael Busch: El Salvador’s War on TerrorEl Salvador risks sacrificing civil liberties and human rights in its war on terror against gangs
Michael Busch: El Salvador Struggles to Break Legacy of Civil War ViolenceWhile protest movements are gaining steam in its regional neighbors, El Salvador descends further into social crisis
Rene Guerra: Salvadorans Warn Canadians about World Bank’s Kangaroo Court“Salvadorans, Canadians, and many others elsewhere face a common threat. Let’s continue to call on our governments to withdraw from these treaties and provisions that leave us all so vulnerable”