State of Deception - Fact Finding Report on the Detained El Salvador Water Defenders, Mining, and the State of Human

Arrest of the Five Santa Marta Water Defenders On January 11, 2023, on the orders of the Attorney General of the government of Nayib Bukele, police arrested six men, five of them in the department of Cabañas in the north of El Salvador¹ and one of them in the San Salvador city. [...] The case was brought by the woman’s daughter in April 2022.⁵ State of Deception: Fact Finding Report on the Detained El Salvador Water Defenders, Mining, and the State of Human Rights under the Bukele Administration 6 The only evidence provided by the Attorney General to lay the charges was the testimony of a protected witness who accused the Five of the murder but admitted when questioned by the. [...] Among these costs are the arbitrary arrest and the indeterminate imprisonment of innocent people via the criminalization of the poor, the targeting of political opponents, and the dismantling of civil society, labor rights, and the freedom of the media (which are the remaining pillars of dissent in the country now that Bukele controls the judiciary, executive, legislative, military, and the Electo. [...] Upon the return State of Deception: Fact Finding Report on the Detained El Salvador Water Defenders, Mining, and the State of Human Rights under the Bukele Administration 12 of the population after the war, the Committee of Repopulated Communities of Cabañas and Cuscatlán (CRCC) was formed to meet the needs of the returning population. [...] Call for a return to democracy in El Salvador, the cancellation of the “state of exception”, and the restoration of the independence of the different branches of the state: executive, legislative and judiciary.