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Freedom for Violeta, Erlinda and other Political Prisoners of El Salvador!

On April 27, a group of progressive Members of Congress called for withholding all military and security aid to El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala in light of “human rights violations” resulting from “state violence.”

Minister of Labor accuses unions and popular movement leaders convening Sunday’s marches of being “collaborators, financiers of the criminal gangs of El Salvador”

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Widespread Arbitrary Arrests and Violations of Due Process In El Salvador Raise Concerns About Human Rights and Ongoing U.S. Security Cooperation

Over 65 U.S.-based groups release joint statement expressing “profound concern” about the Bukele administration’s State of Exception

In late February, 2022, El Salvador made international headlines once again as news circulated that prosecutors had filed charges against former Salvadoran President Alfredo Cristiani, alongside several other high-ranking military officials, for suspected involvement in the 1989 Jesuit massacre at the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA). On the surface, this news is welcome: For more than 32 years, the case has been marked by impuni

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