updated Mon. February 12, 2024
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Green Left Weekly
April 4, 2018
The US-based Committees in Solidarity with the Peoples of El Salvador (CISPES) sent international observers to El Salvador's March 4 legislative and municipal elections. Drawing on their experiences and meetings with social movement organisations, the CISPES delegation published the following reportÃâà...
Eurasia Review
March 25, 2018
During my college days in the early 1980s, the only protests we successfully held inside the University of California campuses were organized by progressive student groups that were affiliated with the CISPES (Committee in Support of the People of El Salvador) and the Third World Coalition. But thoseÃâà...
Asian Tribune
March 24, 2018
During my college days in the early 1980s, the only protests we held inside the University of California campuses were organized by progressive student groups like the CISPES (Committee in Support of the People of El Salvador) and the Third World Coalition. But these rallies did not attract too manyÃâà...
Foreign Brief
March 3, 2018
Election season begins in El Salvador today, with legislative and municipal elections that look like a bellwether for presidential elections later this year. Escalating violence in the country, a deteriorating security situation between the state and armed groups and a deeply unpopular political system will beÃâà...
Food and Water Watch
November 7, 2017
Water is something every single person needs, and has a right to. Around the world, communities are organizing to keep their water clean, safe, affordable and public. That's why we were honored to partner with the Committee in Solidarity With the People of El Salvador (CISPES) to bring Norma PatriciaÃâà...
Hoodline
October 21, 2017
“Right now, there's a real climate of fear,” said Karl Kramer, a coordinator for the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES). There are about 400,000 people from 10 countries with TPS, not including their nearly 300,000 US-born children. A report released this year found that moreÃâà...
People's World
August 17, 2017
The Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) emerged that year as a support group to disseminate information about popular struggles in that country, the smallest in Central America. CISPES became ever more significant as the decade unfolded, as Ronald Reagan intensified aid toÃâà...
Seattle Globalist
March 24, 2015
During a delegation earlier this month to San Salvador, El Salvador with the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), we met with social movement leaders and made election process observations that illuminated many underreported aspects of U.S.-Central American relations.
Truth-Out
December 31, 1999
The FBI did, however, continue domestic investigations -- though often suggesting they were terrorist investigations -- such as its investigation of the group CISPES (the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador) in the 1980s. With the passage of the USA Patriot Act in the wake of the 9/11Ãâà...
