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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Annual processional and vigil to remember the victims of the 1989 massacre at the UCA. Photo credit: CISPES, 2019.
Costumed protester in San Salvador on World Water Day 2022. Sign reads: "If you take my water, you take my life." Photo credit: Alianza Nacional Contra la Privatización del Agua.
