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Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele (center, in brown jacket) at a swearing-in ceremony for 1,400 soldiers in San Salvador in February 2020. The armed forces have gained enormous power under Bukele, who has downplayed its long history of human rights violations.

Post author By Sovah Woydak
Post date August 23, 2024

Land Acknowledgement The Gallatin Galleries is located on the traditional territory of the Lenni-Lenape, called “Lenapehoking.” The Lenape People lived in this territory in harmony for thousands of years. During the colonial era and early federal period, many were removed, but some also remain among the historical tribal communities of the region. We acknowledge the Lenni-Lenape as the original people of this land and their continuing relationship with their territory and we affirm the aspiration of the Lenape Chief Tamanend, that there be harmony between the Indigenous people of this land and the descendants of the immigrants to this land.