San Salvador, January 11 (Prensa Latina) Anti-government opponents in El Salvador today condemned the arrest of trade unionists who protested the failure of the Mayor’s Office to pay salaries in the municipality of Soyapango.
Opposition politicians in the Legislative Assembly, Héctor Silva (Nuestro Tiempo) and Claudia Ortiz (Vamos), joined other groups such as Soyapango’s Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front in opposing the imprisonment.
Ortiz issued a statement protesting the arrest by the National Civil Police (PNC) of union leaders from the Soyapango Mayor’s Office for protesting non-payment of their salaries on the afternoon of January 10.
“Once power bites barefoot,” the MP said on Twitter, along with video of the moment two police officers arrested trade unionist Argentina Ramos, who was arrested along with Boanerges Lobo, both directors of the Soyapango Workers Union (Sitrasoya). . , who led the protest.
The retention of Ovidio Hernández, Secretary General of Sitrasoya, was also confirmed this morning.
On social networks, various solidarity groups and organizations have rejected the measure linked to the recent arrest of the mayor of this municipality, Nercy Montano, of the Nuevas Ideas party, for alleged corruption in the exercise of her office.
The arrest was also opposed by Councilor Héctor Silva of the Nuestro Tiempo party, who expressed his disagreement on how the judiciary works under the current government.
For his part, Walter Raudales of the Salvadorian Left Movement (MIS) also called for the release of the trade unionists who had been imprisoned for demanding their rights.
These arrests come on top of others that took place today in the department of Cabañas and which, according to human rights activists, will “fuel” the march that hundreds of Salvadorans will carry out in this capital on Sunday to commemorate the signing of the peace agreement in 1992.
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