What do the results in each country mean to the other?
Projections, connections, and challenges
October 22, 2008
Tabernacle United Church
3700 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
7:00 – 9:00 P.M.
CRIPDES leaders Bernardo Belloso and Jose Heriberto Orellana Franco speak about issues in the Salvadoran elections and the polls which show that the FMLN presidential candidate Mauricio Funes leads against the ARENA candidate, Rodrigo Ávila. Also Carol Towarnicky, former chief editorial writer for The Daily News, discusses the implications of the upcoming U.S. presidential election results on the 2009 Salvadoran elections.
Additional guests include:
Emily Carpenter, National Director of the USESSC; and
Jan Morrill, USESSC El Salvador Co-Coordinator, who will be translating.
The Reverend Margaret Sawyer, Associate Pastor of Zwingli United Church of Christ as Moderator.
Background: In 2004 both countries experienced irregularities in their elections. In El Salvador, local US government officials preferred the incumbent and took an active role against the FMLN candidate. Many feel this influenced the election's results.
CRIPDES is the largest rural grassroots movement in El Salvador working in over 300 rural Salvadoran communities.
Presented by Philadelphia's Romero Interfaith Center. To learn more about USESSC and the issues, check out www.elsalvadorsolidarity.org.
