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Amid a week of protests, teach-ins, and cultural events to mark World Water Day, social movement organizations marched to the Legislative Assembly on March 22 with flags flying high, signs that read, “Water for the people, not for transnational corporations!” and demands more urgent than ever. As water scarcity intensifies in El Salvador, the movement’s most pressing demand is repeal or reform of the Water Resources Law, recently passed by the Salvadoran legislature that is now dominated by President Bukele’s Nuevas Ideas (New Ideas) party.

On February 25, 2022, the White House announced President Biden's intention to appoint William H. Duncan as US ambassador to El Salvador. According to the White House press release, Duncan is a "career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor, [and] currently serves as a Senior Inspector in the Office of the Inspector General, U.S.

In El Salvador, on International Working Women's Day, March 8, 2022 (or #8M), feminists from a broad array of social movement sectors in El Salvador took to the streets with urgent demands on behalf of women and girls.

Nine months have passed since El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly installed the Special Commission to investigate the destination of funds granted by previous administrations to various non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Ostensibly, the objective of the Commission is to investigate corruption in past administrations, particularly those presided over by the FMLN. However, that pretext seems to have quickly dissolved, as the process has been handled more like a "political show" than as a genuine attempt at transparency or accountability.

The Salvadoran social movement coalition known as the Bloque de Resistencia y Rebeldía Popular (Popular Resistance and Rebellion Bloc) issued a statement yesterday, March 28, condemning the recent wave of homicides in El Salvador as well as the State of Exception that was decreed in its wake by President Bukele. The statement is translated here by CISPES, with suggestions for further reading below.

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