International human rights organizations denounced in a hearing with the Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, IACHR) that El Salvador offers no safeguards for those engaged in defending human rights. The Wednesday...
“Both El Salvador and the United States bear responsibility for the victims, and each must shoulder its share of that accountability. Under no circumstances may they wash their hands of the matter and leave the victims utterly unprotected.” This is one of...
Julio González Jr. had agreed to be deported to Venezuela. When the 36-year-old office cleaner and house painter boarded the flight in Texas in March, he assumed it would take him back to his home country. Instead, the plane landed in El Salvador. “The horror movie...
“Volver a Casa” (Returning Home), the Cáceres song that has become an anthem for Venezuelan emigrants returning to their country, blared at full volume as Mervin Yamarte, 29, Edwar Herrera, 23, Andy Perozo, 30, and Ringo Rincón, 39, arrived in their...
The fiercest voices of dissent against President Nayib Bukele have long feared a widespread crackdown. They weathered police raids on their homes, watched their friends being thrown into jail and jumped between safe houses so they can stay in El Salvador. Then they...
Singer Arturo Suarez was greeted with hugs and tears in working-class El Valle, south of capital Caracas, by his sister, aunt and cousins. He later wiped away tears as he spoke to his wife and daughter, who live in Chile, via video call. “I’m free now, thank God, at...
