2023 Salvadoran protests
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- Salvadoran gang crackdown
- Nayib Bukele's re-election campaign
- Increase of minimum wage
- Release of innocents captured during the gang crackdown
- Respect of workers' rights
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![](#/media/File:2023_Salvadoran_protests_–_"No_a_la_Reelección"_banner.png) Protesters holding a banner reading "No to Re-Election" during the 1 May 2023 protest march | |||
| Date | 1 May and 15 September 2023 | ||
| Location | 13°41′51.36″N 89°11′27.96″W / 13.6976000°N 89.1911000°W | ||
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Protests against re-election occurred in San Salvador, El Salvador on 1 May 2023 and 15 September 2023. In two protest marches, protesters marched from the Cuscatlán Park and Hospital Rosales to Plaza Gerardo Barrios in protest of the Salvadoran gang crackdown and President Nayib Bukele's re-election campaign. Protesters also demanded an increase in minimum wage and that the government respects the rights of syndicates and respects the constitution.
In mid-April 2023, seven Salvadoran leftist organizations announced that they would hold a protest march in San Salvador on 1 May 2023 in commemoration of the International Workers' Day. The protest's organizers stated that they were protesting against the country's gang crackdown, which had up to that point led to the arrests of over 67,000 people, and against the re-election campaign of President Nayib Bukele; re-election is prohibited by the constitution of El Salvador.[2]
On 20 April 2023, Rodrigo Cerritos, a member of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front's (FMLN) national council, confirmed that the FMLN would participate in the 1 May 2023 protest and asked the National Civil Police (PNC) to not block or prevent the protest.[3]
1 May protest
The protest gathered at 8 a.m. at the Cuscatlán Park. Protesters traveled for three hours to the Gerardo Barrios Plaza. During the march, protesters demanded an increase in minimum wage from US$365 to US$500, the respect of syndical liberties, the respect of the constitution, and opposed the capture of innocent people in the gang crackdown and presidential re-election. In total, 34 organizations and the FMLN, Nuestro Tiempo and Vamos political parties participated in the protest.[4][5][6][7]
Protesters met with Rolando Castro, the minister of labor who was present on behalf of Bukele, at the end of the march.[6] Protesters also burned an effigy of Bukele.[4]
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