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.

After being illegally fired, a hunger strike by workers at the Salvadoran Congress forced the government to the negotiating table.

A pesar de que han pasado aproximadamente 9 meses desde que el gobierno salvadoreño levantó las restricciones de las demás fronteras terrestres, la población de Petapa continúa sufriendo el impacto de la presencia militar en la comunidad.

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