Each week, the historic popular education organization Equipo Maíz releases a newsletter highlighting an ongoing issue in Salvadoran society. Since Nayib Bukele took office in 2019, the newsletters have often focused on his government's attacks against public sector workers and government institutions, as well as economic indicators that demonstrate declining living standards for the country's most vulnerable sectors.

Salvadoran popular education group Equipo Maiz analyzes the connection between military sieges, political repression, and historic leftist communities.

New government policies further entrench anti-LGBTI+ attacks in alignment with far-right forces around the world.

Thousands of women commemorated International Women’s Day in El Salvador by marching in the capital on March 8 and 9 in the first mass protests since Nayib Bukele’s unconstitutional reelection. Bukele and his government were a focus of criticism, with marchers citing his opposition to legalizing abortion, turning a blind eye to violence against women, and the deterioration of economic conditions under his government, which disproportionately affect women.

CISPES once again expresses our solidarity with Lorena Peña, lifelong feminist activist and leader within El Salvador’s leftist party, the Farabundo Marti Liberation Front (FMLN) and her daughter following a civil court’s outrageous decision this week to uphold the Attorney General’s unfounded accusations of illicit enrichment.

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