Producers/Hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco
Topic: Military Intimidation in El Salvador
We talk by phone with Francisco Martinez and Michelle Anderson in El Salvador for breaking news from Suchito where the right-wing ARENA party government military showed up in town this week, apparently to intimidate the people in the area where the left FMLN party is far ahead in the polls leading up to elections in January and March.
Francisco Martinez is with the PROGRESO “Directiva Regional” or regional coordinating board in the Suchitoto region. PROGRESO is the regional branch of CRIPDES. CRIPDES started under the name Christian Committee for the Displaced of El Salvador. After the end of the Salvadoran Civil War, the CRIPDES communities changed the name to The Association of Rural Communities for the Development of El Salvador, the Spanish acronym for which is CRIPDES
Michelle Anderson is the Co-Coordinator for the U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities network, linking 16 cities across the U.S. as a movement in solidarity with the Salvadoran organized communities. In addition to participating in this interview, she provides translation as well.
FMI: www.elsalvadorsolidarity.org