Rep. del nuevo gobierno izquierdista de El Salv. visita EEUU
Tuesday, 14 de July de 2009
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14 de Julio de 2009
CONTACTO: Arturo Viscarra, 617-820-3008
Representante del nuevo gobierno izquierdista de El Salvador visita EEUU
Audelia López, miembro de la Asamblea Nacional Salvadoreña hablará
sobre los avances democráticos de El Salvador en comparación con el
golpe de estado de Honduras
López, líder de la Secretaria Nacional de Mujer del FMLN, estará dispuesta dar entrevistas el viernes 17 de julio
Washington DC– Audelia López, una líder de muchos años del partido FMLN
en El Salvador visitará los Estados Unidos durante el 11-19 de julio
como representante del nuevo gobierno Salvadoreño. El Presidente
Mauricio Funes fue inaugurado el 1º de julio y se convirtió en el
primer presidente izquierdista en la historia de El Salvador. La Sra.
López se reunirá con miembros de grupos comunitarios con enlaces
Salvadoreños, líderes del movimiento local para los derechos de los
inmigrantes, y con organizaciones de mujeres trabajando en la área
metropolitana de D.C. La Sra. López hablará en varios eventos y estará
dispuesta a dar entrevistas a los medios de comunicación.
The events of the CISPES summer victory tour from July 6-11 have been canceled for the following reason:
This week our planned speaker for the tour, Breny Herrera, was named the new Director of Public Events, Radio, and Television in the Ministry of Interior and Justice (Ministerio de Gobernacion) of the Salvadoran government.
The appointment was a total surprise, something she just found out
about early this week. It is a very exciting position for her as she will now be working as a top official within the Funes administration; however, with much work to do to begin cleaning up the mess of the previous Saca administration, Breny can no longer come to the US for the tour.
We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience, and we want to extend a special thanks to all those who helped to organize events in Minneapolis, Madison, Milwaukee, and Chicago and who support the
work of the CISPES in the Midwest. We really
appreciate your collaboration with us on this occasion, and we look
forward to organizing future CISPES events together.
biography of East Coast Victory Tour speaker Audelia Lopez
Monday, 06 de July de 2009
Audelia Guadalupe Lopez de Kleutgens
Audelia Lopez is a coordinating member of the FMLN’s National Women’s Secretariat, the body within the party that works for the advancement of female political leadership and the vindication of women’s rights. She is also the FMLN’s Adjunct Coordinator for the department of Chalatenango in the north of El Salvador, working on strategic development with Mayors and the FMLN’s local organizing efforts, and a Substitute Deputy to the National Legislative Assembly.
The National Women’s Secretariat was instrumental in the popular organization that brought about the March 15th historic victory of President Mauricio Funes and Vice-president Salvador Sanchez Ceren as the first leftist president and vice-president in the history of El Salvador. The female vote was very important in this election (women make up 52% of the Salvadoran electorate) and the Secretariat’s grassroots organizing and political education efforts were crucial to the FMLN’s success at the polls. In addition to Ms. Lopez’s organizing work with the Women’s Secretariat, she also coordinated all of the electoral efforts for Chalatenango as the departmental Chief of the Campaign.
Ms. Lopez was elected for her third term as a Substitute Deputy to the National Legislative Assembly in this past January’s legislative elections. During her time in the Assembly, she has primarily participated in the Economic Commission as well as leadership and political trainings that the Women’s Secretariat provides for women Deputies.
In 1979, one year before the founding of the FMLN, Ms. Lopez organized into the Farabundo Marti Popular Liberation Forces (FPL)—one of the five leftist political-military organizations that joined together to form the FMLN and launch a guerrilla offensive in 1980. As an FPL combatant in the guerrilla front of Chalatenango, Ms. Lopez worked primarily in community political education and with the Women’s Association of El Salvador (AMES)—a group that organized for women’s rights during the period of armed combat. When the Peace Accords were signed in 1992, ending the Civil War and recognizing the FMLN as a political party, Ms. Lopez helped coordinate the centers for political education known as the Popular Schools in Chalatenango.
Ms. Lopez will be touring the East Coast of the United States (with stops in Boston, New York City, and Washington D.C.) to speak about the grassroots organizing to bring out and defend the vote that led to the historic leftist victory in El Salvador on March 15th. She will also discuss the many challenges that the new administration (inaugurated on June 1st) will face and their concrete plans to bring about real democratic change in El Salvador.
itinerary for east coast victory tour, July 2009
Wednesday, 24 de June de 2009
July 12 - 13 Boston
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July 14 - July 16 NYC
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July 17- July 19 Washington DC
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