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<div align="center"><font color="#ff0000"><big><b>ACTION
ALERT</b></big></font><br>
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<div align="right">October 2008<br>
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<big><b><br>
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<div align="center"><big><big><b>Stand up against
intervention in El Salvador</b></big><br>
<i><b>Salvadoran Foreign Minister calls for more U.S.
involvement in Latin America</b></i></big><br>
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El Salvador’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marisol Argueta, has
publicly urged the U.S. government to help prevent the leftist FMLN
party from winning next year’s presidential election in El Salvador.
Act now to ensure that the U.S. does not repeat its electoral
intervention of 2004.<br>
<br>
Call your Congressional Representatives TODAY to insist they make a
commitment to free and fair elections in El Salvador. Congress must
refute the ruling ARENA party’s call for intervention by declaring its
neutrality and willingness to maintain a positive relationship with any
government freely elected by the Salvadoran people. <img
alt="Marisol Argueta" src="cid:part3.04010805.04080909@cispes.org"
align="right" height="216" width="288"><br>
<br>
In a speech on September 18 at the American Enterprise Institute, a
right-wing think tank in Washington, D.C., Argueta called on the U.S.
government to be more active in Latin America, lest countries such as
El Salvador elect “dangerous populists” in upcoming elections. Along
with her open-ended exhortation for the U.S. to “do more” to prevent an
opposition government from being elected, she specifically lobbied for
the U.S. to pass immigration reform legislation and to increase its
funding for El Salvador’s police. <i>For a summary of Argueta’s
speech, go here: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.aei.org/events/filter.,eventID.1794/summary.asp">http://www.aei.org/events/filter.,eventID.1794/summary.asp
</a></i><br>
<br>
The panel discussion in which Argueta took part was moderated by Roger
Noriega, who himself perpetrated electoral intervention in El Salvador
while serving as Assistant Secretary of State in 2004. At the time,
Noriega publicly threatened that U.S. relations with El Salvador would
be ruptured in the case of an FMLN victory at the polls. Such threats
led many Salvadorans to fear that their relatives in the U.S. – whose
remittances make up nearly 20% of the Salvadoran economy – would be
deported if the FMLN were elected.<br>
<br>
<div align="center"><i><b>TAKE ACTION!</b></i><br>
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<br>
1) Call your Congressional Representative using the following number
and ask to be connected to your Representative’s office: (202)
224-3121. <i>See below for sample script.</i><br>
<br>
2) Sign the petition calling upon Salvadoran President Saca to
ensure that government employees do not use their positions to
influence the results of upcoming elections: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.share-elsalvador.org/">http://www.share-elsalvador.org/</a><br>
<br>
3) Sign onto CISPES’ “People’s Pledge to Defend Free & Fair
Elections in El Salvador” and accompany the Salvadoran people by
standing in solidarity with them during their struggle for REAL
democracy. Go to <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cispes.org/pledge2009">www.cispes.org/pledge2009 </a><br>
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You can use the following script to talk to your Congressional
Representative. Call (202) 224-3121.<br>
<br>
1. I am calling to urge Representative ___________ to publicly
support democracy in El Salvador by declaring that Congress will not
seek to influence the results of the 2009 elections. <br>
<br>
2. In speech on September 18, El Salvador’s Minister of Foreign
Affairs called upon the U.S. to help ensure that the opposition FMLN
party does not win the country’s March 2009 presidential election.<br>
<br>
3. In 2004, officials from the Bush Administration and some Members
of Congress publicly threatened that the election the FMLN’s
presidential candidate would jeopardize the relationship between the
U.S. and El Salvador. In one glaring example, Congressman Tom Tancredo
threatened that the U.S. would restrict the money that Salvadoran
immigrants living in the U.S. send home, but only if the FMLN’s
candidate were to be elected.<br>
<br>
4. This statement, among others, caused many Salvadorans to vote out
of fear of U.S. retaliation, rather than as their own convictions led
them. As someone who believes in democracy, I want to make sure the
U.S. does not intervene in El Salvador’s elections again in 2009.<br>
<br>
5. It is extremely important that Members of Congress stand up for
the Salvadoran people’s right to freely elect their government, without
foreign manipulation. I am calling on Representative ____________ to
declare neutrality toward the 2009 Salvadoran elections, and to assert
that Congress is willing to seek a positive relationship with any
government freely elected by the Salvadoran people. We are also
interested in having your office co-sponsor a letter to Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice U.S. calling for neutrality in the Salvadoran
elections. <br>
<b><font size="4"><span
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">If your representative’s
office agrees to make a statement or co-sponsor the letter, </span></font></b>ask
for the contact information of the person that the letter should be
sent to<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">. </span></b>Then contact
Burke Stansbury at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:burke@cispes.org">burke@cispes.org</a>
to pass on the contact information and Representative’s name. We
will follow up with that Representative. <br>
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href="http://www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=422&Itemid=29">here</a></big></span></big></font></big><br>
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