CISPES: Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador

Despite roadblocks, military presence, threats, and intimidation, social movement and civil society organizations took to the streets on September 15th, El Salvador’s Independence Day, to denounce abuses under the Bukele regime.

This year in El Salvador, activities in observance of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances carried a particular urgency: As survivors and advocates for justice for the thousands of people forcibly disappeared over the course of El Salvador’s civil war continue their decades-long struggle, they are now also raising the alarm that forced disappearances have returned to El Salvador under the Bukele administration in an environment of widespread repression that recalls some of the country’s