Talk:Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador

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The FMLN, for which the CISPES was founded to raise money, at least was a terrorist organization of Communists whose members murdered a great many people in El Salvador over several years. The article says that the El Salvador "civil war" ended in 1992, but the people of El Salvador elected a new government in 1984, and that government obeyed election laws and elections were held at the appropriate time well before the end date claimed in the article.

The article appears to be little more than a page written by a CISPES apologist, especially with its inclusion of speculation about domestic espionage sourced with a single edition book of 257 pages written by an author of rather alternative views of reality, and which few if any have read (ranked #1,354,452 by Amazon.com as of this writing).

Considering that certain rather well-known people who have had relationships with CISPES will be much in political news in the next couple of years if not longer, a more accurate report on the facts about CISPES will be useful for people wanting to evaluate those who have given both time and money to that organization, whether their own or other people's.

I expect to be able to provide links to confirm the factual points written above before too much time has passed. AccuracyFirst 08:33, 10 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Here are my responses to these points:
 * The article as it is currently written is entirely neutral and factual. It is not "little more than a page written by a CISPES apologist". There is not a single statement that is objectively pro-CISPES.
 * FMLN was not exclusively a communist organization. It was a broad front of many different tendencies, from the far left to the center.
 * The government and the death squads killed vastly more people than the FMLN.
 * The elections prior to the conclusion of the civil war have as much credibility as those recently held in Iraq (and I can't fathom why you put scare quotes on the words civil war). A free and fair vote can not take place when the government does not have full authority over the country and voters are threatened by violence if they don't support the official candidate.
 * Amazon.com rankings are not considered when investigating the credibility of a source.
 * Wikipedia is not a message board for right-wing polemics. Good luck finding credible sources for your so-called facts. —Sesel 18:31, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

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"and continues to oppose the policies that ARENA implements." ARENA has not been in power since Mauricio Funes became president in 2009. CISPES is opposes the policies of the current president, Nayib Bukele. 69.121.7.1 (talk) 01:08, 12 January 2024 (UTC)