The Committee In Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) affirms our solidarity with the uprisings throughout the country demanding an end to white supremacy and police violence. Policing institutions in this country are born from slavery and continue to serve the purpose of protecting the interests of the elite at the expense of the lives of the dispossessed.

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Human rights advocates denounce increase in human rights abuses both in and outside of prisons.

Salvadoran unions joined rural and student organizations to reaffirm that #La Clase Trabajadora Hace La Riqueza

On International Workers Day, unions sound the alarm over $3 billion in new international loans

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On June 1, 2022, Salvadoran community and allies protest outside of the Embassy of El Salvador in Washington, D.C.

Protests Against Three Years of Setbacks

Unions and social movement organizations have called for the release of Giovanni Guerrero, member of the Popular Resistance and Rebellion Bloc, who was arrested following the International Workers Day march on May 1, in which he participated.

Social movement leaders arrested in context of State of Exception

Dr. Violeta Menjiva, former Minister of Health, was unlawfully arrested in July 2021, along with other former officials from the progressive FMLN administration.

Freedom for Violeta, Erlinda and other political prisoners!