El Salvador

This is Part Four of a Series of Interviews with members of El Salvador’s social movements titled "What We Want: Voices from the Salvadoran Left."

Carlos Alarcón is a public high school history teacher, community activist, and board member of ANDES 21 de Junio.  His work spans three decades of turmoil and uprising in El Salvador – specifically in Santa Ana, the second most populous department in the country, which borders Honduras and Guatemala.
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This is Part Three of a series of interviews with members of El Salvador’s social movements titled “What We Want: Voices from the Salvadoran Left.”

Oswaldo Natarén is an artist, activist, and co-founder of the University Front of Roque Dalton (FURD), a leftist student group at the National University of El Salvador (UES).
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This is Part Two of a series of interviews with members of El Salvador’s social movements titled “What We Want: Voices from the Salvadoran Left.”

Josefina Lazo and Sandra Henriquez are members of the first vendors association of San Salvador, which represented 1,000 vendors 25 years ago. In San Salvador today, 30-33 associations are active with a representation of about 20,000 vendors.
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On April 20, 2009, various organizations and individuals from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community of San Salvador rallied in front of the Legislative Assembly to protest an unwarranted attack on their civil rights. Legislative Assembly Deputy Rodolfo Parker has reignited efforts to pass an amendment that would specify that marriage only be between a man and a woman and deny same sex couples the right to adopt a child. […]

This is Part One of a series of interviews with members of El Salvador’s social movements titled “What We Want: Voices from the Salvadoran Left.”

Ana Martínez is an organizer and activist who was born in El Salvador in October 1980 – the same month and year that five armed leftist groups politically converged under the name of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) to confront military and civilian death squads and overthrow the Salvadoran oligarchy.

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The 14th Court of Peace in San Salvador released Roberto Alexis Víchez Osegueda, Adalberto Martínez Mejía, Carlos Alexander Soriano, Alfredo Mauricio Rivas Campos y José María Elizondo on Tuesday and dropped charges by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) that they had been selling child pornography.  Family members believe police instigated the vendors’ wrongful arrests. […]

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By 8.30 pm on arguably the most contested and historically important elections in Salvadoran history, it was apparent that Mauricio Funes of the FMLN, the 1980s armed-leftist-guerrilla-group-turned-political-party, had won. Starting June 1st, El Salvador will be governed by a leftist government for the first time in history, and also for the first time, Salvadorans will have a peaceful, democratic transfer of power.

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Morning always comes early in the country side, but on Sunday, March 15, it comes even earlier to Arcatao. Poll workers are to show up at 5 a.m. to begin their work, but by 4 a.m. FMLN militants are already present at the municipal building on the square. Polls are not supposed to open until 7 a.m., but local activists are so eager for the outcome of these historic elections that voting begins 15 minutes early. […]

The president-elect of El Salvador Mauricio Funes, together with his supporters, celebrated the victory in the elections held this Sunday in this Central American country, giving a speech in which he said that with their vote the people had signed "a new accord on peace and reconciliation." […]