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To help paint the image of a successful war on gangs, in recent years Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele has promoted a narrative that his security policies are resulting in fewer people are leaving the country. Recently, this narrative has gotten a boost in the U.S., from MAGA proponents to mainstream press. Soon after his June 1 inauguration for an illegal second term, to which U.S.

While Bukele has spent several years on an intense, multimillion-dollar international propaganda campaign to convince the world that he has transformed El Salvador into some kind of paradise, working families are experiencing a bleak economic reality.

Despite heavy rains, tens of thousands of Salvadorans took to the streets on Saturday, June 29 for the country’s Pride March in a powerful display of resistance to Nayib Bukele’s attacks against the LGBTI+ community and the country’s democratic institutions.

Between June 16 and June 21, El Salvador, along with the rest of Central America, faced historically heavy rains as a result of a Central American gyre storm system. In El Salvador, the storm caused rivers to overflow as well as landslides, burying homes, destroying roads, and leaving a death toll of 19 in its wake. Extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and intensity in Central America as a result of climate change.

On June 7, a delegation from Socorro Jurídico Humanitario (Humanitarian Legal Aid), which represents and advocates for the tens of thousands of innocent people currently imprisoned under El Salvador’s State of Exception, held a press conference in Washington, D.C. to close out their visit to the U.S. While in Washington, DC and New York, attorneys and advocates from the legal aid group, accompanied by representatives of the Center for Exchange and Solidarity (CIS) met with U.S.

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"I am a CISPES supporter because continuing to fight for social justice and a more people-centered country means continuing the dream and sacrifice of thousands of my fellow Salvadorans who died for that vision.” - Padre Carlos, New York City