Begging Bukele’s regime, the only option for mothers of Salvadorans kidnapped by the state

Fifteen days turned into years. “They told me they were taking him for 15 days… and now it has been more than three years,” says Santos Matilde Munguía Membreño about her son, Santos Cristian Arriaza Munguía, detained since 2022. Since then, life has been sustained through work, the packages she manages to send him, and an absence that keeps growing: her son left behind a child who is now three years old and does not know him. “Give me back my son, because he is innocent,” she pleads. It is not a slogan, but the cry of a mother who only wants her son to return before time erases what still remains to be lived.