CENTRAL AMERICA IN MINUTES, Ep. 19: Fidel Zavala is a Salvadoran businessman turned human rights activist who sued the director of prisons after attesting to state crimes in prison under the state of exception. He has been re-arrested in El Salvador less than a year into his lawsuit against the director of prisons.
Salvadoran unions report 30,000 illegal firings since 2019 to the International Labor Organization. Union representatives compare what they describe as union suppression under Nayib Bukele in El Salvador to the curbing of freedom of expression under Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo in Nicaragua.
The head of the Nicaraguan Armed Forces is sworn-in to a fourth term pledging allegiance to Ortega and Murillo as co-presidents. Nicaragua announces its withdrawal from the U.N. Human Rights Council amid the preparation of a list of officials implicated in crimes against humanity.
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