On May 8, 2022, police in El Salvador arrested Geovanni Antonio Aguirre López, then 32 years old, at his family home under the State of Exception. Geovanni, a union leader and municipal worker in San Salvador, had participated just days earlier in the May Day march, where thousands took to the streets to defend labor rights and protest Bukele’s government policies. 

The trial of nine Salvadoran Civil War veterans and a communications volunteer from the Alliance for a Peaceful El Salvador, scheduled to begin on August 11, has been postponed until September 7–10, further prolonging more than two years of pretrial detention in a case already marked by serious due process violations.

July 30, 1975. San Salvador. Fuerza Estudiantil Salvadoreña (FES) hosts an alternative march and rally to commemorate the 1975 student massacre.

On Saturday, July 30, students at El Salvador’s national university commemorated 51 years since the July 30th,1975 student massacre. On that historic, heroic, and tragic day, thousands of university students, professors, and workers marched in the streets of San Salvador alongside campesinos, urban workers, and middle school and high school students to demand respect for the sovereignty of the university, which was under attack and to protest the generalized conditions of political repression under the military government of Col Arturo Molina.

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