2023-05-02 04:09:00
Various sectors called for respect for their labor rights. Relatives of those captured by the regime came together to demand the release of their relatives.
Despite the police checkpoints to block them at different access points to San Salvador, thousands of workers and trade unionists marched on the occasion of International Labor Day and to speak out against government abuses, the re-election of President Nayib Bukele and demand the release of innocent people detained during the emergency regime.
Members of 34 organizations of the Popular Resistance and Rebellion Bloc participated in the activity, which began in Cuscatlán Park, which culminated in the Civic Plaza, in front of the Metropolitan Cathedral, in the Historic Center.
Also participating in the march were the National Alliance of El Salvador in Peace and relatives of people captured during the emergency regime, organized in the Movement of Victims of the Regime (MOVIR) and those who are assisted by the Humanitarian Legal Aid, as well as relatives of political prisoners.
The representative of the Movement of Victims of the Regime (MOVIR), Samuel Ramírez, called for the immediate release of all those captured who are innocent. “It is not fair that people are waiting a year to be sentenced or released, it means that they do not have evidence and that is why they do not expedite this process,” he pointed out.
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Ramírez also asked the government to create a job reinsertion program for the innocent people who were captured and lost their jobs. The MOVIR leader also considers it important that the authorities “clean the records” of the people released for not having any ties to gangs.
Ingrid Escobar, representative of Humanitarian Legal Assistance, explained that at the moment there are some 20,000 prisoners who have no ties to gangs, including vendors, taxi drivers, day laborers, teachers, trade unionists, farmers, and workers in general.
The relatives of those captured in the emergency regime, which suspends constitutional and judicial guarantees of Salvadorans, took advantage of the march to demand the release of their relatives.
Misael Argueta reported that his brother, Josué David Mozo Argueta, was captured on March 1. He is a young graduate of a degree in Legal Sciences and, according to his relatives, he was doing an internship at the Human Rights Ombudsman’s Office (PDDH), for which they deny that he has ties to any criminal group.
“When the police officers were asked about the capture, they said that they were not obliged to say anything and that they were going to take him only to question him and that he would be released instantly, but when my family arrived they told them that he had been detained under the state of exception,” said Argueta.
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On the other hand, Mariela de la Paz Hernández requested the release of her husband, Erick Omar Espinoza Roque, a bricklayer captured in the El Rosario municipality, La Paz, who was arrested on March 23 of this year.
“They went to arrest him at the house, they were looking for another person and his last name did not match the one they were looking for; So they said they didn’t know whether to take him or leave him, since he was dirty they told him to get ready to take him to the delegation and once he was there they didn’t let him free but instead detained him,” he denounced.
Ivania Cruz, representative of the Committee of Political Prisoners of El Salvador, demanded the release of her captured relatives.
“We are here to stop the political persecution that is experienced in El Salvador, for respect for human rights and for the freedom of political prisoners that we do not want to be used as a method of political campaign,” Cruz demanded.
Judge Antonio Guzmán also stated that both he and the country’s independent judges marched in defense of the Constitution, human rights and the separation of powers and “against immediate presidential re-election, which is prohibited by the Magna Carta ”.
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