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Take Action Now for Ousted Vendors!
City officials violently bulldozed and removed all vendor stalls within the 33 blocks of San Salvador. photo from El Blog Over the weekend, San Salvador Mayor Norman Quijano, presidential candidate for...
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Relief Update: October 2011 Flood
A micro-loan recipient and her 2012 crop. Last October, Tropical Depression 12-E dumped more than five feet of rain on El Salvador in less than ten days. The record shattering floods destroyed more...
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Civil Society Reacts to Vendor Removal
Quijano bulldozed 970 street vendors within 33 blocks On the weekend of October 28th, mayor of San Salvador and 2013 ARENA presidential candidate Norman Quijano ordered the violent removal of 970...
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“Partnership for Growth” or Destruction?
When El Salvador privatized electric energy in 1999, electricity rates rose an average 47.2% for the lowest-level consumers and 24.3% for the highest users, hitting the poorest sectors of society the...
View ArticleP3 law passes: What does this mean?
The Salvadoran Legislative Assembly passed the Public-Private Partnerships Law Thursday, May 23rd, with 83 of 84 votes. As one assembly member was absent for the vote, the law passed by consensus,...
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Inside Look with Ricardo
An interview with CONFRAS’ Ricardo Ramirez, social organizer, marking 4 years of the FMLN administration. CONFRAS is the Confederation of Federations of Agricultural Cooperatives from the Agricultural...
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Norman Quijano: From Mayor to President?
This is the second post in a three-part series introducing the three main candidates for presidency, representing UNIDAD (a coalition of the GANA, CD and PCN parties), ARENA, and the FMLN. Six months...
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Institutional Crisis: Road Paved to Fraud
Only one month remains until elections in Honduras, and the crisis in Honduran public institutions has only deepened. The Honduran people have faced a multitude of deep-rooted systemic injustices for...
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SHARE Visits a Local Farmer’s Market
The Local Market in the UCRES Region Every 15 days, local farmers and artisans come together to sell their produce and simple crafts in the UCRES region of La Cabaña, just north of El Paisnal. You can...
View ArticleWho Will be the Next President of El Salvador? Open-Forum with Presidential...
Tomorrow, eighty SHARE delegates will travel throughout El Salvador to participate as international observers in the 2014 Salvadoran Presidential elections. Yesterday, these delegates had the...
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