The demonstrations in El Salvador against Nayib Buekele coincided with the Central American Independence events, which included parades of soldiers, police and students
This Sunday, September 15, hundreds of Salvadorans took to the streets of the Historic Center of San Salvador to protest against the government of Nayib Bukele to demand an end to human rights abuses, to denounce the lack of action to locate the missing, and to denounce setbacks in gender issues.
This demonstration coincided with the Central American Independence events, which included parades of soldiers, police and students.
The protesters carried banners with messages such as “no more corruption”, “freedom for my family member”, “no more criminalisation of trade unionists” and “no more regime”. Among the slogans they shouted were “they took them alive, we want them alive” and “we defend the innocent, not the criminals”.
Alfredo Mejía, coordinator of the Movement of Victims of the Regime (Movir), told EFE that the state of exception, approved by Congress at the request of the Government following an escalation of murders attributed to gangs, has become a “regime of repression.”
“We don’t have freedom, because if we say anything against the government, they apply the regime to us,” said Mejía, who maintains the innocence of her daughter, who was detained under the state of emergency.
He added that there are still “arbitrary arrests” carried out by authorities under false pretenses and without arrest warrants, as well as threats against lawyers defending those detained.
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Amaranta Portillo, representative of the Feminist Resistance, commented to EFE who attended to denounce the deepening invisibility and violation of women’s rights that they observe.
“We seem to live in a perfect reality, where no one dies here, but every week we have a woman murdered at the hands of her partner, and if before there were rapes and harassment by criminals, now the military does it too,” she said.
Salvadoran authorities attribute a reduction in homicides to the state of emergency, which suspends constitutional guarantees, while humanitarian organisations report more than 300 deaths in custody and more than 6,400 reports of abuses.
With information from Swissinfo
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