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We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, express our solidarity with Lorena Peña, a lifelong feminist activist and leader within El Salvador’s leftist party, the Farabundo Marti Liberation Front (FMLN), who is currently facing political persecution at the hands of the Bukele government in El Salvador.

On Wednesday, March 8, 2023, for International Working Women’s Day (or #8M) two prominent Salvadoran feminist coalitions, Asamblea Feminista and Resistencia Feminista, joined forces to lead a march and release a joint statement of demands to uplift their message of “Together we fight, resist, and advance.” Though the two coalitions, which together represent a broad array of social movement sectors, including organized rural farmers, war veterans, student organizations, LGBTI coalitions, unionized textile and health wor

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International organizations denounce case against Lorena Peña and express concern about failed judicial system in El Salvador

On January 15, 2023, two major social movement coalitions in El Salvador - the Popular Resistance and Rebellion Bloc (BRP) and the National Alliance for a Peaceful El Salvador - together with many other convening groups and organizations, marched to commemorate the 31st anniversary of the signing of the country’s 1992 Peace Accords, a historic event that marked the end of the armed conflict that had resulted in the forced disappearance, death and mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans.

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