Salvadoran Elections 2012

I traveled with the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) as an electoral observer for the mid-term election in 2012. There was a lot at stake in this election as the Frente Farabundo Marti de Liberacion Nacional (FMLN), after legitimately gaining political recognition following decades of civil war and subsequent peace negotiations, was neck-to-neck in the polls with the right-leaning ARENA party going into the mid-term elections. With the electoral system in a state of precarity and disastrous capital flight in the wake of the FLMN's presidential victory in 2010, observers were keenly on watch for instances of electoral fraud throughout voting day, March 12th. Here are some of the scenes from that day.