1) Call the Congressional Switchboard at 202-225-3121 and ask to be connected to your Representative (They will ask for your ZIP code and patch you through) [Can't make a call? Click here to send an email]

2) Identify yourself as a constituent and ask to speak to whomever handles foreign affairs. You can say you are calling about the upcoming Presidential elections in El Salvador.

3) Use the following script as a guide. Feel free to personalize with your own experience!

2018 was a very busy year for the Salvadoran social movements, including constant mobilization to defend the right to water.

Send emails to El Salvador's Attorney General calling on him to stop criminalizing environmental defenders and to U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Jean Manes telling her to drop her support for the Attorney General!

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If you are an international ally, use this link

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Photo: CISPES

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A march against Bukele's imposition of a law to make Bitcoin national legal tender drew hundreds on Sept 1 in San Salvador.