Serving the state that kidnaps you: the reality in El Salvador

He served the State, protected those in power, and today remains behind bars. José Alexander Martín Espineda was a soldier for five years and a member of the presidential honor guard. Today, his name appears in charges of “illicit associations.” “They took him from the house,” says María Antonia Martín, while firmly insisting on his innocence.

From the hospital, with a diagnosis that leaves little time, her request is not political; it is urgent: to see her son free before she dies. She says that “the prison is full of innocent people” and that it is unjust for those who served the nation to end up detained without answers. In her voice, broken by pain, there is one final plea: justice before time runs out.