Concerns regarding human rights abuses in El Salvador - and government repression against those who denounce them - continue to grow at the international level.

On October 31, 2025, the Salvadoran labor movement commemorated Salvadoran Trade Unionist Day, a date that honors the memory of the nine workers murdered in the 1989 bombing of the National Federation of Salvadoran Workers' Unions (FENASTRAS), among them the historic union leader Febe Elizabeth Velásquez.

Since early September, Trump administration officials have openly celebrated deadly military strikes on at least 7 boats in the Caribbean and now in the Pacific. International legal and human rights experts have widely denounced the attacks as "extrajudicial executions" and violations of international law.

On September 2, 2025, Rudy Joya and Ivania Cruz, Salvadoran attorneys and spokespersons for the Human and Community Rights Defense Unit (UNIDEHC) forced into exile in Spain, were summoned to the Madrid Police Station following the receipt of a red notice issued by INTERPOL at the request of the Salvadoran government.

More than 80 organizations from Latin America, the United States, and Europe signed a statement in support of the demands of those directly affected by the State of Exception in El Salvador.

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