The recent protests in Nicaragua has bought the Central American country into the international spotlight in a way it hasn't been in many years. The mainstream media in the U.S. paints a picture of President Ortega as a dictator who will soon be toppled by the masses who have the backing of all Nicaraguans.

However, this is not the whole story. Like other recent protests in Latin American countries that have left and left-leaning government, people in the U.S. solidarity movement have rightly been asking: Who is protesting? Why they are protesting? How might the U.S. be involved?

   

On April 16, 2018, a judge in San Salvador ordered the Attorney General to reopen a case against high-ranking former military officers who are accused of orchestrating the massacre of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter at the Central American University Jose Simeon Cañas (UCA) in 1989, among them Chancellor Father Ignacio Ellacuria, who is thought to have been the main target of the killing.

On April 20, a civil court in El Salvador absolved the family of former President Francisco Flores (1999-2004) on a technicality in one of the most high-profile cases of corruption in the country’s recent history. Francisco Flores, from the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), was under house arrest and on trial for corruption and embezzlement when he suddenly died in 2016.

Thanks for taking action! // ¡Gracias por tomar acción!

Environmental leaders in El Salvador say the voice of the diaspora is CRITICAL in the struggle to guarantee the human right to water - will you help us spread the word? // Liderxes del movimiento ambiental en El Salvador URGEN la participación de la diáspora en la lucha para garantizar el derecho humano al agua  - ¿nos puede ayudar en correr la voz?

Tomar Acción

Take Action In Solidarity with El Salvador

Conozca algunas de los donates que hacen posible nuestro labor!

"Apoyo a CISPES porque continuar la lucha para la justicia social y un pais enfocado en el pueblo significa continuar el sueno y sacrificio de miles de mis compatriotas Salvadoreñas que dieron su vida por esta visión. - Padre Carlos, New York City

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