Bush Administration Targets Latin American Solidarity Activists

In response to the democratic upsurge in Latin America, the Bush administration is targeting for special surveillance and repression US groups who lead public pressure campaigns to end US government intervention in that continent.

One of those groups is the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, or CISPES, an organization formed in the 1980s to block the US government's role in fomenting El Salvador's civil war and the Reagan administration's support for right-wing military groups that caused the deaths of tens of thousands of Salvadorans.

In January, said CISPES executive director Burke Stansbury in a recent interview, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) sent a letter to CISPES ordering it to register as an agent of a foreign government or entity.

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