The stage is being set for El Salvador’s next Presidential elections, scheduled for February 4, 2019. El Salvador’s Constitution sets a limit of one five-year term, so President Sánchez Cerén of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) is ineligible to run for re-election. On May 27, the FMLN chose Hugo Martinez as their candidate to face off against Carlos Calleja of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) and - in all likelihood - Nayib Bukele of the newly-formed New Ideas party.

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Petition to the US Ambassador to El Salvador.

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Webinar with Karen Ramírez of the National Water Forum of El Salvador, May 29 at 6:00 pm ET

El Salvador’s Water: Not for Sale!

Featuring Salvadoran social movement leader Karen Ramírez

Tuesday, May 29 at 6:00 pm ET/3:00 pm PT

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