Salvadoran Minister of Labor accuses unions of being gang “financiers,” criminalizes International Workers’ Day march on Sunday

Minister of Labor accuses unions and popular movement leaders convening Sunday’s marches of being “collaborators, financiers of the criminal gangs of El Salvador” During an April 28 press conference, El Salvador’s Minister of Labor, Rolando Castro, effectively criminalized any International Workers’ Day march planned for Sunday. As is customary in El Salvador and throughout Latin America, labor unions and other popular movement organizations had planned mass marches, this year calling for respect for the right to organize and nationalization of the pension system, and denouncing illegal mass firings of public…

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