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On June 18, President Nayib Bukele presented a bill titled the General Law for Water Resources, with the hope that the legislature will discuss and approve it within 90 days. The new proposal effectively annuls more than a decade of debate and consensus with social and environmental organizations who argue that Bukele's proposal would legalize corporate commodification of water resources over human needs.

While migrants are told not to come to the United States, environmental and human rights defenders from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador say the U.S. should reconsider economic development assistance that’s forcing them to leave

Nahuat elders resist private investors' plans to construct a hydrolectric dam in Indigenous territories

Militarization, mass layoffs, cuts to social programs and attacks on democracy expected to continue

Read CISPES' report documenting Bukele's repeated actions to empower the military and police beyond the strict limits imposed by the 1992 Peace Accords.

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