Update on student leader assassinated in El Salvador As we have already informed our readers Ángel Humberto Martínez Cerón of the BERS-24 was assassinated on June 26. We invite our supporters to send protest letters to the El Salvador authorities, the addresses of which we provide here together with a photograph of Ángel.
El Salvador: student leader assassinated – solidarity with the BERS-24 On June 26, at around 10.40pm, comrade Ángel Humberto Martínez Cerón was assassinated just a few metres from his home. He was the General Coordinator of the "January 24" Revolutionary Socialist Students Block (known as BERS-24). The political activity this revolutionary young militant was involved in was the reason why the ruling class decided to silence him.
The most important left wing newspaper in El Salvador reproduces analysis of Venezuelan referendum by Alan Woods The Salvadorean newspaper Diario CoLatino has dedicated its weekly supplement Perspectivas to balance-sheet of the defeat of the constitutional reform in Venezuela, publishing in two pages the article by Alan Woods. Diario CoLatino has a circulation of around 35,000 copies and is the most widely read newspaper amongst left wing activists in the country, in the FMLN, the trade union and the student and peoples' movement. A few weeks ago, Diario CoLatino also published the analysis of the Argentinean elections by the comrades of the Corriente Socialista El Militante, showing the impact of and interest for Marxist ideas in the country.
