El Salvador 2024 Independence Day Protest. SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Opposition parties, activists, environmentalists, and feminist groups will join thousands expected to take to the streets Thursday for El Salvador’s annual Labor Day march, organizers announced.
Participants will gather at Plaza del Divino Salvador del Mundo and Cuscatlán Park before heading toward the Civic Plaza in San Salvador’s Historic Center.
The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) called its supporters to assemble at 8 a.m. at El Salvador del Mundo.
According to FMLN Secretary General Manuel “El Chino” Flores, marchers will demand better wages, labor benefits, union rights, improved healthcare, and stronger education systems.
The FMLN political party will rally under the slogan “One Single Front, One Single People.”
Representatives from the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), including lawmakers Marcela Villatoro and Francisco Lira, confirmed they will also march in a personal capacity.
Additionally, VAMOS political party Secretary General Cesia Rivas said her party would participate, although neither political parties ARENA nor VAMOS have announced their specific routes.
Several civic organizations, including Humanitarian Relief, the National Health Forum, the Association of the Center for the Study of Sexual and Gender Diversity (AMATE), and the Salvadoran Left Movement (MIS), plan to march from El Salvador del Mundo.
The Movement for the Defense of Working Class Rights (MDCT) will lead a march beginning at 7 a.m. from El Salvador del Mundo, while the Popular Resistance and Rebellion Bloc (BRP) will depart from Cuscatlán Park at 8 a.m.
Groups such as the Movement of Victims of the Regime (MOVIR), the Confederation of Salvadoran Agrarian Reform Federations (CONFRAS), youth from the University of El Salvador (UES), and the Women, Soil, and Land Roundtable will join the march from Cuscatlán Park.
The marches are expected to converge in the San Salvador Historical Center; organizers hope this march will be one of the largest Labor Day mobilizations in recent years.
