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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Graphic from "Página de Maíz" publication #880, from Equipo Maíz. Signs read: “Free our relatives! They are innocent!” . . . “The State of Exception is like the snake that only bites people who are barefoot.”
Protesters rally outside of the Salvadoran consulate in Los Angeles, denouncing abuses under the Bukele regime
22,000 people marched for the Pride commemorations and protests in San Salvador on Saturday, June 25 I Photo courtesy of Vladimir Chicas
