Over 60 public sector workers, mostly teachers and healthcare workers, have been fired after an October 19 march denouncing the austerity measures presented in the government’s 2025 budget bill. The bill would eliminate 11,176 public sector positions, adding to the mass layoffs that have occurred throughout Bukele’s presidency.

Translation by CISPES (original below and here)

We reject the appeal of the Attorney General's Office and demand that the acquittal of our environmental leaders be upheld

After nearly three years in pre-trial detention, former Minister of Public Security and Justice Mauricio Landaverde and former Inspector General of Prisons Ramón Roque are free.

Washington, D.C. – On October 25, the Fifth Circuit Sentencing Tribunal of San Salvador ruled that former Minister of Public Security and Justice Mauricio Landaverde, former Inspector General of Prisons Ramón Roque and 17 other former government officials and employees are innocent of all embezzlement, bribery, and misrepresentation charges brought against them by the Attorney General’s office.

On the heels of Friday’s historic acquittal of five Santa Marta environmentalists, 19 former FMLN officials and government employees await a verdict in their own trial. The case, which went to trial on August 20, is yet the latest in a series of attacks by the Bukele government, characterized by smear campaigns and the use of the legal system, to discredit the leftist FMLN party and opposition leaders. A verdict in this case is expected on Friday, October 25.

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