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Rodríguez and his group received Amate digital security training, another LGBTIQ+ organization that advocates the national level. Since May, Amate has trained 60 people on issues that include digital rights, risk analysis, extortion, phishing, excursion, surveillance and pornography of revenge. It also includes the implementation of tools such as the use of VPN and messaging platforms encrypted, such as Signal and Proton.
“Something that activists were telling us (which) is very common is that people take their Facebook photos and make them pass through social networks, either to attack other groups or to undermine personal aspects. Therefore, it is a very interesting experience. People are not aware of the exhibition we have in the digital world,” says Fernando Paz, who is in charge of teaching these courses.
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For Rodríguez, these tools are a way of facing a country that, with the support of the government, is becoming increasingly violent with those that represent diversity.
“At university, we have had experiences of hate speech in classes. Teachers have said they share Bukele’s thinking in gender ideology and that this has to disappear because young people poisons,” says Rodríguez.
A way in which the government has used to hide violence against the LGBTIQ+ community is the lack of accounting of hate crimes committed in El Salvador. In recent years, the country’s attorney general’s office, also known as FGR, has used the categories “murder due to social intolerance” and “murder due to family intolerance” to count homicides that cannot attribute to what he calls “general crimes” (mostly, according to the government’s narration, perpetrated by gang). There is no clarity about what falls into these categories, which are not official, they are not defined and only publicly used, not within administrative reports. Between 2023 and 2024, the FGR counted 182 of these cases.
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Given statistical darkness, the exercise of documenting and archiving Organizations have taken hate crimes. The passionist social service, an anti-violence group, found that 154 LGBTIQ+ people They have been arrested During the emergency regime of El Salvador, which began in March 2022 and has extended 39 times to date. After this, Nicola Chávez and his team saw the need to register cases of violence against members of the LGBTIQ+population.
“We always intended to start an observatory, but with the beginning of the exception regime, everyone knows that police violence and military harassment have a disproportionate impact on the LGBT community. Obviously, that hurts us, and I don’t know who they count on to be able to denounce,” says Chávez.
