The Real News interviewed CISPES organizer Yesenia Portillo about President Bukele's recent use of police and military to intimidate lawmakers in El Salvador, the Constitutional crisis that it provoked, the response of grassroots organizations in El Salvador and where the struggle for democracy goes from here. Watch here.
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Banner hangs in Berkeley, California, with text: "Bukele kills El Salvador's democracy." Photo credit: Diáspora Democrática en Resistencia y Nación Salvadoreña en el Exterior.
Monument to Memory and Truth, Parque Cuscatlán, San Salvador. Photo credit: Jorge Montenegro (www.jmontenegro.com.sv), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The Committee of Family Members of Political Prisoners of El Salvador hold a press conference in San Salvador to announce the delivery of letters from the international community to various state institutions.
