Its director, Alberto Velázquez, says the decision stems from a recommendation by the Ministry of the Interior to the apostolic nuncio, Monsignor Luigi Roberto Cona. Velázquez maintains that the organization never engaged in partisan politics and that its work focused...
The recently published report places El Salvador alongside countries such as Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Mozambique that have experienced democratic backsliding over the past year. According to the latest report, governments in 33 countries are increasingly resorting to...
In an interview conducted by Benjamín Cuéllar on his radio program Quijoteando on La Klave, Cantón said it “is really striking that they haven’t denied that crimes against humanity were committed” following the public release of the report,...
The priest also addressed the broad scope of the term “terrorist” cited in the constitutional reform to Article 27 carried out by the Legislative Assembly, as the term is very dangerous in El Salvador, given that a state of exception remains in effect. In...
López, 48, who heads the anti-corruption unit of the NGO Cristosal, was arrested in her pajamas a little more than 300 days ago, accused by a prosecutor’s office aligned with Bukele of illicit enrichment stemming from her work at the electoral tribunal a decade...
“Public spending on Security, Defense, and the Prison System has experienced an unprecedented increase,” said the International Group of Independent Experts for the Investigation of Human Rights Violations (GIPES) in the context of the report in which the...
