As the Salvadoran government celebrates the country's 204th independence anniversary with parades in San Salvador, some 1,500 people march against the government of president Nayib Bukele. Their demands include resolving "human rights violations, mass layoffs, increasing poverty, hunger among the Salvadoran people, political persecution, the closing of democratic spaces" and others, says Maricela Ramirez. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES