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👀 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗢𝗯𝗮𝗺𝗮'𝘀 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘅𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗮-𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲.

🔹 In college, Barack Obama helped co-found a local chapter of CISPES (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador), a U.S. group that supported the FMLN, a Marxist guerrilla front fighting the U.S.-backed Salvadoran government.

🔹 CISPES often worked alongside the Nicaragua Network, which championed the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. (U.S. intelligence later confirmed that the Sandinistas supplied El Salvador’s rebels with weapons and training.)

🔹 As the solidarity scene matured:

• 1985: Nicaragua Network + Detroit CISPES ➡️ merge → CASC (Central America Solidarity Committee)
• 1993: CASC + MICAH ➡️ merge → OSCA (Organization in Solidarity with Central America)
• 1998: Former Nicaragua Network activists incorporate the Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ), folding their old network inside as a project.

Today AFGJ still operates as a left-wing umbrella group ... the same lineage that began with 1980s “solidarity” campaigns.

So yes… the activist ecosystem that once rallied for Marxist guerrillas in Central America evolved, merged, and rebranded, and figures like Obama (via early CISPES work) and later Bill Ayers (through AFGJ-linked circles) both trace lines back into that same network.

CISPES (of which Obama founded a local chapter, according to David Garrow) was found to have furnished funds to Marxist rebels in El Salvador, in possible violation of the Firearms Control Act.

They also met with FMLN, potentially violating FARA.

The report goes onto detail other allegations that weren't substantiated, such as CISPES taking direction from foreign governments on when and where to demonstrate.

I found a declassified CIA document that states that Farid Handal, brother of the Salvadoran Communist leader, traveled to meet with representatives of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to create these solidarity networks in the USA -- including CISPES.

CISPES was bad, bad news:

@bullfrog35 Ruh-oh... PFLP mention.