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  1. ¡Schafik Presente! • “Si me van a recordar que me recuerden exactamente como he sido. Como un luchador cuya bandera principal que siempre empuñó es la bandera de la democracia en el país, para abrir al pueblo salvadoreño la posibilidad de decidir por sí mismo. Ese ha sido el hilo conductor de toda mi lucha…” -Schafik Hándal

  2. ¡ Hasta La Victoria Siempre! The CISPES delegation to Observe the 2009 Legislative and Municipal Elections in El Salvador

  3. Outline for Presentation • Headed into the Elections • What’s at stake? • Strategy of the FMLN and the social movement • The dangerous and desperate efforts of the right-wing • Victory in January! • Call for solidarity

  4. Turning Point: 2009 • January 18, Legislative and Municipal Elections • March 15, Presidential Elections • Polls show strong support for the FMLN, for Mauricio Funes and Violeta Menjívar, mayor of San Salvador

  5. What’s at Stake?Crisis in El Salvador • Strict implementation of free trade policies and privatization; Dollarization • Massive corruption by the right-wing oligarchy • Impunity; right-wing control of state institutions • Violence and organized crime

  6. From Below, from Within and to the Left: Strategies of the Left What factors explain the massive support for the FMLN? • Organized social movement and relation to the party; grassroots organizing • “The Formula” • Open Social Dialogue • Good governance

  7. The organized social movement • Struggle against CAFTA • Victory in the struggles against water privatization and health care privatization • Social movement structure; relationship to the party

  8. Victory against Privatization!

  9. Nace la Esperanza, Viene el Cambio • In November, 2007, the FMLN launches the Presidential Campaign for 2009 with the presidential “formula” Mauricio Funes and Salvador Sanchez Cerén

  10. The Open Social Dialogues • An international process to develop the platform of the FMLN • “The launch of participatory democracy in El Salvador”

  11. Somos El Cambio: Governance in FMLN municipalities • “We will win by being good government in the places where we already govern” • Examples in Mejicanos and San Salvador • Creating the alternatives, building trust

  12. Strategy of a (fractured) right-wing • U.S.-sponsored repression against the social movement • Political assassinations in the pre-electoral period • Dirty Campaign • Control of the electoral apparatus • Fraud

  13. State repression and U.S. intervention • The ILEA and Plan Mexico

  14. Repression against the social movement: 2006-2009

  15. Political assassinations since the opening of the ILEA in 2006

  16. Political Violence • Attacks on FMLN activists • Resurgence of death-squad style killings • Demand of the FMLN before the TSE, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal

  17. U.S. Intervention • Threats of retaliation in 2004 • The FARC and the “Magic Laptop” • Puppets of Chavez • Silence=Complicity

  18. “La Guerra Sucia”: Fuerza Solidaria • “Un grupo fantasma” • Relentless attacks on Funes and Sanchez Cerén • Threats of U.S. retaliation • Public campaigning in El Salvador

  19. “La Guerra Sucia” in San Salvador & Role of the Media

  20. “Los Grupos Armados” • Threat of the “Armed Groups” • Justification to send military out to countryside, FMLN strongholds • Fears of the war, voter supression

  21. Role of State Institutions • Politicized nature of the TSE • Use of state resources • Demands made by FMLN: political violence, slander, campaigning by Fuerza Solidaria

  22. Behind the Scenes:“El fraude sútil” • The padrón and the National Registry • What allows for this? Control of DUIs and lack of access to the National Registry • Voter mobilization in San Salvador; Three years in the making

  23. The foreign vote • Buses detained from Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua • Lack of action by Attorney General and Police • Citizen action! San Isidro, arrests, closing the borders

  24. Celebracion!!

  25. The results: Victory for the FMLN! • Municipalities: 96! • Special and symbolic victory in Izalco, Morazán, Usulután • Legislative Assembly: 35 seats, the most of any political party • FMLN nearly 100,000 votes over ARENA in total vote • The first political force in the country!

  26. International Observers

  27. CISPES denouncements • Press conference • Radio interviews • Lack of action by OAS and EU observers • Report to be publicized in El Salvador and in the U.S.

  28. Onwards towards March! • Strategy of the FMLN • Critical role of international observers • Action and solidarity from within the U.S. • Solidarity strategy to defend an FMLN victory

  29. Building Popular Power: From Below, From Within and to the Left!

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