The COVID-19 pandemic hit the LGBTI population in El Salvador hard, significantly increasing structural inequalities and putting vulnerable communities even more at risk. Social movement organizations argue that this outcome is largely a result of government response and public policy that invisibilized and excluded LGBTI communities.

Analysis of recent and upcoming Legislative Assembly votes, from popular education organization Libros Equipo Maíz, translated by CISPES and reprinted with permission. Read the original in Spanish below. 

The Bukelista deputies reformed the Criminal Procedure Code so that the police and attorney general's office can carry out electronic spying. They also intend to modify the Law on Access to Public Information so as not to be accountable for the money they manage.

No need to verify anything, just suspect

In a symbolic cultural-artistic activity protesters threw a cardboard coffin over police barricades. The coffin read, “Democracy Murdered."

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El Salvador has registered the highest inflation rate since the dollarization of the economy in 2001, increasing 6.11% as of December 2021 according to data from the General Directorate of Statistics and Censuses (DIGESTYC).

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