, by GROSSER David
Salvadoran protester. The sign reads “The water is mine, not the oligarchy’s”
In 2009, twenty years after the negotiated end to a brutal civil war, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), former guerrillas turned left political party, finally won the presidency of El Salvador, (...)
, by KOWALCHUK Lisa
El Salvador is probably the worst country on earth to have an unwanted or life-threatening pregnancy, or a complicated miscarriage, especially if you are poor. The country’s extreme abortion regime was recently highlighted by the release of two women from 30-year prison sentences. Their ’crime’ was to have had a miscarriage. Both innocent women had served over a decade of their sentences.
Around the world today we are seeing two opposite tendencies in abortion law reform. In the Americas, the (...)
, by GODFRIEND Hilary
The U.S. agency for International Development (USAID) frames its work in El Salvador in the sterile, technocratic language of neoliberalism. The Agency is devoted to fostering “prosperity, security and good governance” in the small Central American nation. Notions of non-partisanship and (...)
, by AGUIAR Diana, BRENNAN Brid, BUXTON Nick, TOGNONI Andrea
The controversial legal case that Canadian mining firm Pacific Rim has launched against El Salvador has added fuel to the growing international debate on the balance of corporate rights and responsibilities and the need for new legal international frameworks to address corporate impunity.
15 (...)
, by GROSSER David
In the midst of the current economic crisis, leaders of the world’s richest countries (the U.S., most shamefully) claim that they do not have the money to fully fund key programs in healthcare or education. Meanwhile, since 2009, El Salvador, one of the poorest countries in the Americas, has (...)
, by GARCIA Alex, RIVERA Jaime
A NEW “CONCESSIONS” law is before Salvadoran legislators, threatening Salvadoran workers, and further submitting the national economy to foreign capital. President Mauricio Funes’ office proposed the Public-Private Partnership (P3) law in early 2012; it is slated for a legislative vote in April or (...)
, by KOLFF Joukje
SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR, 5-6 November 2012 - Environmental and social justice activists from around the globe gathered here for two days of passionate presentations calling for solidarity, resistance to transnational corporations and for increased sovereignty for local communities.
The (...)
, by ROWLANDS David T.
At last, after decades of brutal right-wing rule, the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) won El Salvador’s March 15 presidential election.
While this is a welcome ray of hope in impoverished Central America, the slender margin indicates a rocky road ahead for the incoming (...)
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