[van-announce] FMLN Parliamentarians face revival of death squads (Discussion)

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From: Alan Ward <arward at interchange.ubc.ca>
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Subject: This Friday - FMLN Parliamentarians face revival of death
squads
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 22:44:30 -0700

 El Salvador

                          HOPE FOR THE FUTURE

Friday, October 17 at 7 pm, IWA Hall, 2859 Commercial Drive

Guest speakers: FMLN Member of Congress in El Salvador Blanca Flor
Bonilla, Vancouver City Councillor Tim Louis, SFU Latin American Studies
Professor Bob Everton and Alicia Barsallo, teacher, community activist
and 2001 NDP candidate for Vancouver/Kingsway. 

In the face of increasing pressure and the drive for consolidation of
global power by the United States, people in Latin America are
responding with their own brand of revolution. Broad coalitions are
coming together to fight back the neo-liberal model. The defeat of the
recent round of talks at the WTO in Cancun, the election of "Lula" in
Brazil, the popular support for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and
the electoral progress of the FMLN in El Salvador are signs that the
people if united will never be defeated. 

Blanca Flor Bonilla will talk about the progress made by the Frente
Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) in El Salvador. After
15 years of right wing rule by the ARENA party, the FMLN appears poised
to win the presidential elections in March 2004. The right has responded
by reviving the death squads, however, and banning the entry of
observers into El Salvador.  Blanca Flor Bonilla is the FMLN’s
Coordinator for International Relations.

COME TO SHOW YOUR SOLIDARITY

Short video, food & music

Free admission

Organized by: Canada - El Salvador Action Network (CELSAN) and FMLN
Vancouver.

Endorsed by: Canadian Latin - American Collective Association, Group of
Relatives and Friends of Political Prisioners in Mexico, and NDP
Kingsway/Vancouver.

Media contact: celsanvan at yahoo.ca

http://celsan.webnts.com

More information: info at fmln.ca