This is the fourth march against the Government that has been held since September 7.
Thousands of Salvadorans demonstrated again this Sunday against the “dictatorial actions” of President Nayib Bukele, the violation of human rights and the Constitution, and the implementation of policies that “do not benefit the people.”
The new march, convened mainly on social networks, brought together civil society, union members, former judges, ex-combatants of the Armed Forces and the ex-guerrilla, war disabled and members of the LGTBI community.
This would be the fourth march against the government of President Bukele that has been held since last September 7, when hundreds of Salvadorans demonstrated against the implementation of the bitcoin law that allows the use of cryptocurrency as a payment method alongside the dollar .
The demonstration started from the Cuscatlán park, in San Salvador, and traveled at least 3 kilometers to conclude in the Gerardo Barrios square, known as the civic square.
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Marta Rivas, a woman who traveled from the municipality of Santa Marta – more than 70 kilometers from San Salvador – and who has participated in previous protests, told Efe that she is against “the dictatorship” and that she raises her voice for “all those (women) murdered and for whom they are still missing.”
“We defend democracy and we believe that this country has to recover its democracy (…), we reject all the policies that this Government and the Legislative Assembly are implementing that violate the rights of the people,” he said.
In addition, he pointed out that 2021 has been “a dark year, a year of many shadows because every day we continue to discover new tricks, new macabre intentions of this Government to want to disrupt and delegitimize all social struggles and restrict freedom of expression and the press.” .
“We demand that the rule of law be respected, the distribution of the three powers of the State, because we believe that in a democratic country there is also the guarantee of rights for all citizens,” he said.
Rivas invited the Government to “change its thinking and its practices that, until now, are dictatorial practices.”
“Violating constitutional rights”
For the Salvadoran identified only as ‘David’, the policies implemented by the Bukele government “do not benefit the population at all,” and he gave bitcoin as an example.
“At first, most of us believed in him (in Bukele), but as time has progressed, the project has been twisted and Nayib and his Government have been violating constitutional rights,” said the resident citizen in the populous town of Ilopango.
He pointed out that “the last thing (Bukele) has done, the last grace he is doing is fighting with the United States when we are a country that depends” on that nation.
“All these policies and all these actions of this Government do not really benefit anyone. The people, at least we, do not perceive anything from all these policies (…) I do not know if he is poorly advised, he is not really seeing what it is happening in the colonies, in the cantons, “he added.
“The young, the most repressed”
For his part, a young man who identified himself as ‘Nomad’ told Efe that young people are “the most repressed” and pointed out that the Government “has only created an advertising idea that young people are the future of the nation.”
“Our situation is very difficult, because recently the advertising idea was projected that young people were going to be the future of the nation, but we realize that we are the most repressed.” And he added: “in clandestine graves, that’s where the youth end up.” (I)
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