President Bukele’s party, Nuevas Ideas (New Ideas), radically upended Salvadoran constitutional law on Monday, April 29 to give themselves total license to approve and ratify constitutional amendments in the coming legislative period, a massive slate of which have been under discussion since 2020. Opposition political parties, civil society organizations, and the grassroots popular movement immediately denounced their approved “reform” for dismantling fundamental protections for citizen participation and limits on the consolidation of power enshrined in the constitution.

The Land, Water, and Natural Resources Movement vows to fight recent ecological disasters.

Salvadoran social movements mark International Water Day by highlighting issues with the country's 2021 Water Resources Law.

Each week, the historic popular education organization Equipo Maíz releases a newsletter highlighting an ongoing issue in Salvadoran society. Since Nayib Bukele took office in 2019, the newsletters have often focused on his government's attacks against public sector workers and government institutions, as well as economic indicators that demonstrate declining living standards for the country's most vulnerable sectors.

Salvadoran popular education group Equipo Maiz analyzes the connection between military sieges, political repression, and historic leftist communities.

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