The Central American country represents one of the most conservative policies in terms of sexual and reproductive health, supporting a law that penalizes women with 50 years in prison if they decide to abort or suffer from obstetric complications.
But in addition to the prohibition to decide on our bodies, the Salvadoran government of Nayib Bukele and its institutions such as the National Civil Police make femicides invisible, classifying them as homicides and giving false figures, decreasing the cases, however feminist organizations such as the Organization of Women for La Paz (Ormusa), based on violence against women, recorded 42 femicides up to October 2022.
Currently, government institutions avoid giving information and details of cases of violence against women, making the information out of date.
And although the bourgeois propaganda of the current government is painted as progressive and modern, the reality is that working women suffer a great disadvantage in terms of salary compared to that of men while women earn an average of 325.12 dollars, they have a salary of 379.12 dollars also have a higher health insurance coverage of 26.2 percent over the 23.2 percent of women.
The unemployment rate in El Salvador has the most up-to-date record of 2020 and presents an increase in informal work where women represent the large population of self-employed workers.
The Institute of Public Opinion (Iudop) of the José Simeón Cañas Central American University indicates that 49.3% of those surveyed believe that their family economy remains the same and 18.2% express that it has worsened due to unemployment and the high cost of the basic basket.
In this post-pandemic crisis, the abandonment of their income to thousands of women who are relatives of those captured and arbitrarily captured under the exception regime imposed by Nayib Bukeles from April 2022 to date, there are hundreds of women imprisoned without Criminal record or evidence of crimes.
The sector that leads the fight for the liberation of those captured and are precisely women mothers, sisters or daughters who sleep outside prisons waiting or looking for their family member, most of the cases do not even have a criminal record and yet they do not have Right to visit a lawyer.
The Government of Bukele under the need of the Salvadoran people to live without gangs has criminally used bourgeois laws to imprison women and men, mostly young workers, who are dying and being tortured in prisons; Amnesty International has spoken out in this regard due to serious human rights violations, including freedom of expression, and because some women who demand justice have had to flee the country due to harassment by government repressive forces.
Currently, the Armed Forces of El Salvador is one of the institutions with the highest financing, with 232.8 million dollars, while the only entity of higher education receives 132.4 million, demonstrating that for the Salvadoran government, education is in the background.