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.

El 7 de junio, una delegación de Socorro Jurídico Humanitario, que representa y aboga por las decenas de miles de personas inocentes actualmente encarceladas bajo el régimen de excepción de El Salvador, sostuvo una conferencia de prensa en Washington, D.C. para clausurar su visita a los Estados Unidos. Durante su visita a Washington D.C.

On May 30 and May 31, 2024, police in El Salvador arrested nine leaders of the prominent opposition group Alianza Nacional El Salvador en Paz (National Alliance for a Peaceful El Salvador). Among them were two historic leaders of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), José Santos Melara and Atilio Montalvo, one of the signers of the 1992 Peace Accords.

Marked by displays of military might and religious zeal, Nayib Bukele was sworn in to a second consecutive term as El Salvador’s president on June 1, 2024, an unconstitutional act that the country has not seen since the 1930s military dictatorship of Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez. To social movement groups in El Salvador, June 1 marks the beginning of “a new stage of struggle.” 

Marked by displays of military might and religious zeal, Nayib Bukele was sworn in to a second consecutive term as El Salvador’s president on June 1, an unconstitutional act that the country has not seen since the 1930s military dictatorship of Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez. Days before the inauguration, ten leaders of Alliance for a Peaceful El Salvador, a prominent opposition group, were arrested.

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