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Nayib Bukele will be inaugurated on June 1 and will become the youngest president in the history of El Salvador. Accompanied by his new Foreign Minister Alexandra Hill, a member of one of the families that makes up El Salvador’s historic oligarchy, and U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Jean Manes, Bukele traveled to Washington, D.C., where he reaffirmed that his top priority will be to remain in the good graces of the United States.

Workers in El Salvador are quickly moving to the defensive in the face of threats from the incoming administration of Nayib Bukele, whose anti-worker stance has put the labor movement on alert.

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of San Salvador to demand that President-elect Nayib Bukele ally himself with working-class people, not with US and right-wing economic interests in the region.

This past week, the Institute for Human Rights at the University of Central America in El Salvador held its eleventh annual International Restorative Justice Tribunal. Each year, the tribunal reviews cases of human rights violations that occurred during the Salvadoran civil war.

Representatives from the Social Alliance for Governability and Justice (ASGOJU), a civil society organization that represents more than thirty organizations and social movements nationwide, held a press conference on April 5 to denounce actions taken by magistrates of the Supreme Court of Justice and by El Salvador’s new Attorney General, Raul Melara, that, according to ASGOJU, “promote corruption and impunity.” Among the actions cited was a recent Supreme Court ruling to halt open embezzlement investigations if ten years had passed since the official’s time in office, functionally granting

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