๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฎ๐บ๐ฎ'๐ ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐น๐ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐
๐ถ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐๐บ ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ผ ๐บ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ฎ-๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐น๐น๐ถ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐น๐ผ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐๐๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ.
๐น 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.
๐น CISPES often worked alongside the Nicaragua Network, which championed the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. (U.S. intelligence later confirmed that the Sandinistas supplied El Salvadorโs rebels with weapons and training.)
๐น As the solidarity scene matured:
โข 1985: Nicaragua Network + Detroit CISPES โก๏ธ merge โ CASC (Central America Solidarity Committee)
โข 1993: CASC + MICAH โก๏ธ merge โ OSCA (Organization in Solidarity with Central America)
โข 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 โsolidarityโ campaigns.
So yesโฆ 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.
๐น 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.
๐น CISPES often worked alongside the Nicaragua Network, which championed the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. (U.S. intelligence later confirmed that the Sandinistas supplied El Salvadorโs rebels with weapons and training.)
๐น As the solidarity scene matured:
โข 1985: Nicaragua Network + Detroit CISPES โก๏ธ merge โ CASC (Central America Solidarity Committee)
โข 1993: CASC + MICAH โก๏ธ merge โ OSCA (Organization in Solidarity with Central America)
โข 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 โsolidarityโ campaigns.
So yesโฆ 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.
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.
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