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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=5
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Salvadoran
presidential candidates drop out, FMLN and ARENA now stand alone</span></font></b><b><font
size=5><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-weight:bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>CISPES
update<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>February
5, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Also in this
update:<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><b><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:bold'><a
href="#_Spanish_judge_to">Spanish judge to investigate Salvadoran Army
Member for Jesuit massacre</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><b><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:bold'><a
href="#_Proposed_Port_Concession">Proposed Port Concession Law would give
90% ownership to foreign company</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><b><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:bold'><a
href="#_Voting_continues_with">Voting continues in re-dos and tie-breakers</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><b><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:bold'><a
href="#_Pressure_from_Pacific">Pressure from Pacific Rim Mining Company
Intensifies, Anti-Mining Activist Home Robbed</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></li>
</ul>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><b><font size=3
face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Christian Democrat
Party (PDC) and National Conciliation Party (PCN) have dropped out of <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s
March 15 presidential election, leaving the two major parties—the right-wing
Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) and the leftist Farabundo Martí
National Liberation Front (FMLN)—as the only parties competing for the
presidency.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>PDC candidate Carlos
Rivas Zamora announced his withdrawal on Tuesday, February 3, citing lack of
funds and a lack of confidence in the electoral system.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>On the afternoon of
February 4, the national leadership of the PCN followed suit, announcing it was
withdrawing support for its presidential candidate, Tomas Chévez. Chévez
maintains he will continue his candidacy even without the backing of PCN
leadership, which has prompted some in the leadership to consider expelling him
from the party.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Supreme Electoral
Tribunal (TSE) magistrate Walter Araujo stated that an independent Chévez
candidacy would be a violation of Salvadoran electoral law, which requires all
candidates to be representatives of political parties. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The announcements from
both parties come after current President Tony Saca, of the ARENA party, called
for a “democratic alliance” between ARENA, the PDC, and the PCN
leading up to the March election. FMLN presidential candidate Mauricio Funes
has criticized the PDC and PCN for withdrawing from the presidential race,
accusing ARENA of having “under-the-table” negotiations with the
smaller parties for control of key government departments in the case of an
ARENA victory. The PCN—which runs the <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address
w:st="on">Treasury Court</st1:address></st1:Street> under Saca’s
administration—and the PDC deny these allegations.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>While on the national
level the leadership of ARENA, the PDC, and the PCN typically collaborate and
build alliances, this does not always hold true at the local level. Currently,
both Funes and ARENA candidate Rodrigo Ávila are meeting with mayors and local
leaders around the country to build alliances, and some PDC mayors have already
endorsed one candidate or the other. In the most recent poll by <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>La Prensa Grafica, </span></i>published on February
1, Funes held a 10-point lead over <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Avila</st1:place></st1:City>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<h3><a name="_Spanish_judge_to"></a><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Spanish judge to
investigate Jesuit massacre<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h3>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On January 13, 2009, Judge Eloy Velasco of Madrid, Spain, announced he
would investigate the charges presented by the Spanish Association for Human
Rights (APDHE) and the San Francisco-based Center for Justice and
Accountability (CJA) against 14 members of the Salvadoran army for their
participation in the murder of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her
daughter on November 16, 1989. Judge Velasco cited the <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address
w:st="on">Spanish Court</st1:address></st1:Street>’s principle of
universal jurisdiction in his decision to proceed with the case against the
army officers.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The APDHE and CJA also presented charges against former Salvadoran
President Alfredo Cristiani for his role in covering up the crime. However,
Judge Velasco did not accept this charge, arguing that it does not fall under
the principle of universal jurisdiction. Salvadoran and international human
rights groups are hopeful that the investigation of the 14 army officers will
lead to a decision to also investigate Cristiani.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>David Morales, a lawyer at the Foundation for the Study of the
Application of Law (FESPAD) in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">San
Salvador</st1:place></st1:City>, predicted that the investigation will
confirm that the 14 officers are guilty of the crime. Two of the members of the
army accused of the crime were convicted by a Salvadoran court in 1991.
However, the 1993 approval of an amnesty law prohibiting the prosecution of
crimes committed during the Salvadoran Civil War released them and set the
stage for the continued impunity of human rights violators seen in El Salvador
today. The decision to investigate this case is “encouraging news in the
effort to put an end to impunity in this country,” said Morales.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<h3><a name="_Proposed_Port_Concession"></a><b><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Proposed
Port Concession Law could give 90% ownership to foreign company<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h3>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On January 23, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">El
Salvador</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s Ministry of Public Works, along
with the Executive Commission on Ports (CEPA), presented a Port Concession Law
for consideration by the national Legislative Assembly. The law would concede
90% of the ownership and administration of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s two ports,
Acajutla and the recently-completed La Unión, to a private company, with the
remaining 10% of ownership and administration to remain in the hands of the
state. </span></font>The day before the law was presented, a legal challenge
disputing the constitutionality of concession laws was submitted to the Supreme
Court by the Foundation for the Study of the Application of Law (FESPAD) and
the Center for the Defense of the Consumer (CDC).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Salvadoran President Tony Saca has made a plea that the Legislative
Assembly approve the law—which requires a simply majority vote of 43
legislative deputies—before his term is up on June 1 of this year.
“You should make an effort to study the subject of ports because, as you
start to do this, many doubts will come up and we will be able to clear them
up,” he stated. The legislative factions of the Farabundo Martí National
Liberation Front (FMLN), the National Conciliation Party (PCN), and Democratic
Change (CD) agree that there is no hurry to approve the law, and that a matter
of such importance to the country merits a profound analysis. The Christian
Democrat Party (PDC) says it is ready to approve the law, but with an amendment
giving 100% ownership and administration to an international operator. FMLN
deputies have said they would only approve a concession law that gave 49% of
ownership to the foreign company and maintained 51% control for the state.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The new port at La Unión has been promoted as facilitating trade among
all of Latin America, Asia and <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>. To
date, companies from the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan</st1:country-region>, the <st1:country-region
w:st="on">United Arab Emirates</st1:country-region>, the <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Philippines</st1:country-region>, and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Belgium</st1:place></st1:country-region> have expressed interest in
operating the ports. The company or companies that receive rights to the ports
would be able to operate, maintain, equip, and develop the infrastructure of <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s
port system.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The privatization of the port system in <st1:country-region w:st="on">El
Salvador</st1:country-region> would be an additional step in the neoliberal
economic policies that the Saca administration, building upon the groundwork of
three preceding Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) administrations, has
pursued at the prodding of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United
States</st1:country-region></st1:place> and other foreign creditors. These
policies have thrown <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">El
Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place> into crisis as they put the
resources, services, and infrastructure of the country at the service of
private—often foreign—companies, instead of the people.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<h3><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></h3>
<h3><a name="_Voting_continues_with"></a><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Voting continues with
re-dos and tie-breakers<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h3>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>While January 18 was the date of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s municipal and
legislative elections, re-do and run-off elections have continued since then.
On Sunday, January 25, make-up elections were held in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">San Isidro</st1:place></st1:City>, Cabañas. The voting center in <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">San Isidro</st1:place></st1:City> had been shut
down at midday on the original election day after the Municipal Electoral
Committee voted to suspend voting due to an alarming number of foreigners
present in the municipality. The FMLN, PDC, PCN, and CD representatives on the
Committee agreed to take the dramatic measure over the objections of the ARENA representative.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The do-over election on January 25 took place amidst a heavy presence
of the National Civil Police (PNC) and military Special Forces. International
observers and representatives from (FESPAD) denounced the
“militarization” of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Voting</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. Other observed
irregularities included campaigning within the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Voting</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>,
falsified identification documents, and ARENA activists exchanging food and
money for votes. ARENA won the mayoral election in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">San Isidro</st1:place></st1:City>, Cabañas.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On February 1, San Agustín, Usulután, held a run-off election after the
mayoral candidates for ARENA and the FMLN tied with 877 votes each on January
18. The election on February 1 took place in a very tense environment, with
multiple verbal confrontations between supporters of the contending parties.
International observers received multiple accusations of ARENA activists buying
votes. These accusations were substantiated when ARENA member Berta Lovos was
arrested for offering lunch and $20 to people in exchange for ARENA votes. Her
case is now under the jurisdiction of the Attorney General. The ARENA mayoral
candidate won the election by 166 votes.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The continued voting after January 18 highlight the tense electoral
environment and the numerous irregularities reported during the elections. As
the presidential election of March 15 approaches, many calls are being made to
diminish this tension and make the electoral process fair and transparent. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>International observers
and political parties have called for a purging of the Electoral
Registry—which has been demonstrated to contain numerous anomalies. The
FMLN and civil society groups have called for an end to ARENA’s dirty
campaign against the FMLN that promotes violence and polarization. Social
movement groups have denounced the heightened presence of the PNC and Armed
Forces as an attempt at voter intimidation. The FMLN has also requested
permission to use ultra-violet lights to verify identification cards at each of
the country's 10,000 voting tables for the March 15 presidential election. The
right wing-dominated Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) denied the use of these
devices in the January 18 municipal and legislative elections. <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Check out CISPES’s complete analysis of the
January elections: <a href="http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5831">http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5831</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<h3><a name="_Pressure_from_Pacific"></a><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Pressure from Pacific
Rim Mining Company Intensifies, Anti-Mining Activist Home Robbed<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h3>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The community of <st1:City w:st="on">San Isidro</st1:City>, Cabañas in <st1:country-region
w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region> has been the site of a powerful
resistance movement against gold mining since 2006, effectively shutting down
the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">El Dorado</st1:place></st1:City>
mining site and winning a victory against the Canadian-based Pacific Rim Mining
Company. On January 31, anti-mining activist Héctor Berríos was robbed it
was appears to be an effort to discourage his work against mining in <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">San Isidro</st1:place></st1:City>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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