The promises and dangers of digital security in an era of dictatorship
Rodriguez and his group received digital security training from Amart, another LGBTIQ+ organization that advocates nationwide. Since May, Amate has trained 60 people on issues like digital rights, risk analysis, fear tor, phishing, going out, surveillance and revenge porn. It also includes implementing tools such as VPN use and encrypted messaging platforms. signal and proton.
“What activists were saying to us is that people take Facebook photos and impersonate social networks, attack other groups and undermine their personal aspects. So it’s a very interesting experience.
Natalia Alberto
For Rodriguez, these tools are ways to stand up to a country that is becoming increasingly violent towards people representing diversity, with government support.
“In college, I had hate speech experience in my class. The professor shares Bukere’s thinking about gender ideology and says that he has to go away to poison young people,” says Rodriguez.
One way the government has used to hide violence against the LGBTIQ+ community is the lack of accounting for hate crimes committed in El Salvador. In recent years, the country’s Attorney General’s Office, also known as FGR, has used “murders due to social intolerance” and “murders due to family intolerance” to count murders that cannot be called “common crimes” (although mostly according to the government’s stories committed by gangs). Those that fall within these categories are not official, not defined, and are not clear about those that are used solely publicly. It is not in the management report. From 2023 to 2024, fgr We counted 182 of these cases.
Natalia Alberto
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Exercise in the face of statistical obscurity Documentation and Archives Hate crimes are being addressed by organizations. Passionate social services, an anti-violent group, have 154 LGBTIQ+ people I’m being detained It began in March 2022 and was extended 39 times to date during the emergency regime in El Salvador. Following this, Nicola Chavez and her team saw the need to document cases of violence against members of the LGBTIQ+ population.
“We were always going to start observatory stations, but everyone knows the beginning of the exceptional regime is that police violence and military harassment have a disproportionate impact on the LGBT community, and obviously it hurts us.