Called by the Ecofeminist Bloc, the women will meet in the central Cuscatlán park, in this capital, to demand rights that are postponed in an eminently sexist country.

The day before, the Women’s Commission of the Movement for the Defense of the Rights of the Working Class (MDCT) met with representatives of the Ministry of Labor, to present their demands and demand compliance with international agreements in defense of women’s labor rights.

Idalia Zúniga, general secretary of the Salvadoran Teachers’ Front (FMS), explained that prior to International Women’s Day they came to the Ministry of Labor to expose the large number of layoffs in the different public institutions, in which the majority are women.

Meanwhile, during the week, the Legislative Assembly approved the thirty-sixth extension of the exceptional regime, the measure that covers the Territorial Control Plan (PCT) in force since 2019 and which is seen as the government’s flagship policy that allowed it to reduce the murder rate to 1.9 per 100,000 people.

By making this new request for an extension, the government’s security cabinet justified that the maras or gangs adopt new forms to seek a resurgence. On the other hand, Bitcoin and the government’s policy with this cryptoactive remained in the attention of the population after an alleged challenge by the government to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by not complying with what was agreed to be granted a loan of nearly 1.5 billion dollars.

Among the conditions agreed with the financial entity are limiting government action in the use of the digital asset. In a message this week, President Nayib Bukele stressed that Salvadoran politics “is not stopping” now with what was agreed with the IMF and stated that “if it did not stop when the world condemned us to ostracism and most of the ‘bitcoiners’ abandoned us, it will not stop now and it will not stop in the future.”

During the week, Salvadoran organizations exposed how demands for justice for several massacres committed in the country during the war are progressing, an event that coincided with a judicial decision to extradite from the United States one of the accused in the murder of four Dutch journalists during the conflict.

The information was revealed this Thursday during the celebration of a conference of the Roundtable against Impunity in El Salvador (Mecies) that advocates for truth and transitional justice in the country.

A statement by Mecies stressed that the response of all the powers and institutions of the State to the crimes against humanity and war crimes that occurred within the framework of the armed conflict is institutionalized impunity.

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