Unfortunately, there is little tradition of alternative approaches in El Salvador. For example, when an organization or community decides it has to participate in the very secure dominant capitalist system, the leadership seems to think it must abandon all their principles to participate. There is virtually no sense that communities can run businesses for profit and still try to put the community interests at the forefront. It's not merely a question of new organizing techniques, or a better adjustment to working within the existing system. A new vision is needed, a new critical approach to social problems and proposed solutions.
Nobody knows yet what that is.
It will likely emerge from the intersection of a politicized cooperativism, the struggle for grassroots democracy, the issues movements, and a number of hopeful experiments in a new critical journalism. The Salvadoran left is in a period of darkness right now, but there is reason to hope that it is only night, and that a new sun will rise.