Protest Against President of El Salvador

by Marcus Monday, Apr. 07, 2008 at 7:30 PM

Protest Against President of El Salvador, in Los Angeles, Sunday, April 6, 2008

Protest Against Pres...
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Protest Against President of El Salvador, in Los Angeles, Sunday, April 6, 2008

Taken from a flyer:

Why is CISPES { Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador} protesting the visit of President Antonio "Tony" Saca and candidate Rodrigo Avila of the right-wing ARENA party?


The corrupt ARENA government which has, in the last five years, "governed" over the collapse of the health care system of El Salvador and the impoverishment of the working families of El Salvador

The escalating human rights abuses and military and police repression of the civil population of El Salvador, and their visit to Los Angeles, seeking collaboration from the LAPD and the City of Los Angeles in this systematic, violent abuse of activists and community people.

El Salvador's role as the only Latin American country to capitulate to President Bush and send military troops to Iraq, where young Salvadorans have died in combat.

The nomination of Rodrigo Avila, former chief of the Salvadoran police and often nicknamed "Rambo" in the Salvadoran press, as the ARENA candidate to continue the Saca policies which are imposing horrendous suffering on the people of El Salvador.

ARENA support for CAFTA and other trade agreements plunging the Salvadoran people into great poverty

ARENA support for the ILEA [International Law Enforcement Agency] now training police in El Salvador the way the School of the Americas trains the military of Latin America...since the opening of the Academy, police repression has escalated.

Policies of privatization, exploitation, repression and corruption... the Salvadoran people have suffered enough! Help say "NO" to five more years of ARENA government.