More than 100,000 Civil Protection personnel will provide assistance during the parade on September 15, an activity commemorating the end of Spanish colonialism in Central America.

Highlights of the parade include nearly 2,500 students from public and private schools, a performance by the Salvadoran Band, and a parade of the Fire Department, the National Civil Police (PNC), and the Salvadoran Armed Forces (FAES).

The official parade will end near the departure point of another parade organized by civil society organizations such as the Popular Resistance and Rebellion Bloc (BRRP), Organized Youth, and opposition political parties to denounce government policies that allegedly violate human rights.

The Bloc called on the population to participate and demand “no arbitrary dismissals, no captures of innocent people, no land dispossession, and no political persecution.”

War veteran groups will also celebrate and commemorate the date, but at the same time will express their rejection of the high cost of living and the arrest of people for protesting against the state of emergency, which, they said, persecutes and criminalizes those who protest against the government.

The Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) also called on its members to march to the Historic Center of San Salvador under the slogan “One People, One Route.”

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