RSSOriginally posted on July 30th, COHA is republishing the article below concerning the Pacific Rim Mining Company’s corporate lawsuit against the government of El Salvador, using the procedures especially created under the DR-CAFTA agreement to bring its complaint. COHA is taking this step because [...]
Archive for the Category: "El Salvador"
August 25th, 2010 - 9:31 am § in El Salvador, Front Page
To COHA’s subscribers regarding “Pacific Rim v. El Salvador and the Perils of Free Trade in the Americas”:
Pacific Rim vs. El Salvador: los riesgos del libre comercio en las Américas
En el 2005, el entonces Senador Barack Obama, publicó un artículo de opinión en el Chicago Tribune titulado ¨Por qué me opongo al CAFTA¨. En ese artículo, publicado el mismo día que el Senado americano votó sobre el Tratado de Libre Comercio de América Central- República Dominicana (DR-[...]
July 30th, 2010 - 10:59 am § in El Salvador, Front Page
Pacific Rim v. El Salvador and the Perils of Free Trade in the Americas
In 2005, then-Senator Barack Obama published an opinion piece in the Chicago Tribune entitled “Why I oppose CAFTA.” In his article, released on the same date as the Senate vote on the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (“DR-CAFTA”), Obama explained that he would not vot[...]
Las Concesiones de un Partido Izquierdista: El Dilema del FMLN en Respuesta a la Política Centrista de Funes
El 1 de Junio de 2010, El Salvador celebró el primer año de la presidencia de Mauricio Funes. Funes es el primer candidato del partido político Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) en ser elegido a la presidencia. La victoria de Funes revivió un electorado frustrado y mar[...]
June 28th, 2010 - 3:09 pm § in El Salvador, Front Page
Concessions of a Leftist Party: The FMLN’s Dilemma in the Face of Funes’ Centrist Policies
On June 1, 2010, El Salvador celebrated the first year of Mauricio Funes’ presidency. As the first candidate from the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) ever elected to the presidency, Funes’ victory revived a frustrated and marginalized constituency on the left and renewed wides[...]
June 28th, 2010 - 2:45 pm § in El Salvador, Front Page
El Salvador’s Slow-Motion Democratization and Its Delicate Days Ahead
President Mauricio Funes’ first year in office was heavily scrutinized as it came to a close. The moderate leader of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) was simultaneously seen as leaving many challenges unanswered and all but ignoring the leftist legacy of his FMLN party. [...]
June 28th, 2010 - 1:08 pm § in El Salvador, Front Page
After a Problematic Tutelage, El Salvador Emerges from a Bloody Epoch to See a Possibly Promising Future
After a year in office, one of the achievements brought about by the still completely untested Salvadoran administration of President Mauricio Funes, a space has been created for several innovative, yet not well known, projects like that of the University Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero (UMOAR). [...]
June 22nd, 2010 - 2:57 pm § in El Salvador, Front Page
Filmmaker Don North Examines El Salvador’s Past and Hopes for Its Future
Nearly two decades removed from a bloody and divisive civil war, El Salvador finds itself at a critical junction in the young history of its republic. Don North’s recently released film, Guazapa: Yesterday’s Enemies, revisits the origins of the war in order to historically contextualize the cou[...]
Perseverancia en la Educación: El Salvador Surge de una Época Ensangrentada a un Futuro Prometedor
Después de un año como presidente, uno de los logros de la Administración del Presidente Mauricio Funes en El Salvador, es haber permitido espacios para que se desarrollen iniciativas innovadoras, hasta ahora poco conocidas, como el de la Universidad Mons. Oscar Arnulfo Romero fundada por el Dr[...]
February 17th, 2010 - 11:02 am § in El Salvador, Front Page
Is El Salvador’s first left-leaning president changing the country’s internal political realities for the better? Are U.S. policy makers about to make a major mistake?
An analysis of current developments in El Salvador, while at the same time undertaking an assessment of President Mauricio Funes’ performance, might reveal that: “For the first time we have a democratic government, a solidified government, a just government that is going to push for changes [...]