Foreign Policy Forum

Salvadoran Social Activist Speaks Tonight


By Kirk Siegler, 11-09-05

Globalization, US intervention in Latin American affairs and the controversial Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) are on tap tonight on campus.

Salvadoran labor activist Wilfredo Berrios will explain why he thinks the above topics are helping to worsen poverty and widen the inequity of wealth in his home country.

Berrios is instrumental in SUTTELL, a Salvadoran union of telecom workers. He was also an underground organizer for the country’s social movement during its twelve year civil war. His talk starts at seven in the Urey Underground Lecture Hall, and it’s sponsored by Community Action for Justice in the Americas, the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center and UM Students for Peace and Justice.



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