U.S. Ambassador admits intervention in El Salvador election - 'We won't do it again.'

by Bill Carpenter (wcarpent#ccsf.edu)

Thu, Jul 17, 2008 2:36PM

Bay Area Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador press conference July 16, 2008, at the Federal Building in San Francisco.

The CISPES press conference was in English and Spanish. This is the English portion in three parts:
1. Antonio Medrano: Four-minute QT movie. 64MB.
2. Coralia Solis: Four-minute QT movie. 55MB.
3. Alexis Stoumbelis: Five-minute QT movie. 63.8MB.

The Spanish portion will be posted on http://www.indybay.org/espanol/
tomorrow.

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"The recent CISPES fact-finding delegation to El Salvador had an unexpected meeting with U.S. Ambassador Charles Glazer. After CISPES delegates confronted him about ongoing U.S. political, economic and military intervention in El Salvador, specifically regarding U.S. intervention in the 2004 elections on behalf of the right-wing ARENA party, Ambassador Glazer admitted that yes, the U.S. had intervened in the 2004 presidential election!

"We believe this is the first time that a representative of the Bush administration has taken responsibility for their role in manipulating and interfering in El Salvador's 2004 presidential election."

--CISPES
http://tinyurl.com/6q5mpu

For more information: http://www.cispes.org/index.php

§CISPES Press Conference

by Bill Carpenter

Thu, Jul 17, 2008 2:36PM