Crisis and Change: Resistance in Latin America today

Featuring:
Sonia Umanzor, FMLN-DC (Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional)*
Brian Tierney, International Socialist Organization

When:
Thurs., May 7 at 7pm

Where:
La Casa Church, 3166 Mt. Pleasant St NW, Washington, DC (Columbia Heights metro-Green line)

Contact: 202 903 6906 or iso_district@ yahoo.com

Sponsored by: the DC branch of the International Socialist Organization | www.isodc.blogspot. com | www.socialistworker .org

After years of severely repressive rule in El Salvador, Mauricio Funes of the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) won the country's presidency in March. This is a huge victory for the people of El Salvador and their decades-long, hard-fought struggle against the violent, right-wing ARENA party and their US-dictated neoliberal economic policies.

The FMLN's victory in El Salvador mirrors the leftward shift in Latin
America as a whole over the past few years -- in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, Evo Morales' Bolivia, and so on. But the leftward tide has been met with major challenges in the form of right wing reaction and the severe repercussions of the global economic crisis. And while the election of Barack Obama has left many hopeful for a new era in US-Latin America relations, many questions remain. What are the implications of the change in El Salvador? Where is US imperialism in Latin America headed? What is next for the left in Latin America? How can activists, progressives and socialists organize in solidarity with struggles for liberation in Latin America?

Join the ISO for a panel discussion that will take on these questions and more.

*For identification purposes only

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*Crisis y cambio: Resistencia en América Latina Hoy*

Con:
Sonia Umanzor, Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN)*
Brian Tierney, International Socialist Organization (ISO)

Jueves, 7 de Mayo a las 7pm

La Casa Church-3166 Mt. Pleasant St NW (Columbia Heights metro-linea verde)

Contacto: 202 903 6906 o iso_district@ yahoo.com | Traducción estará disponible

Patrocinado por: the DC branch of the International Socialist Organization |
www.obrerosocialist a.org | | www.isodc.blogspot. com