The U.S. State Department has now declassified (from the level of “confidential”) and publicly released the text of three documents pertaining to the “dirty deal” between the United States and El Salvador for the transfer and indefinite detention of alleged members of...
Jorge Rodríguez, Chavismo’s chief negotiator, declared last Saturday in remarks broadcast by state-run Venezolana de Televisión (VTV) that the talks to free 252 Venezuelans involved only the United States. The deal to release 252 Venezuelan migrants imprisoned in El...
Democratic Congressman Gregory W. Meeks voiced alarm over Cristosal’s recent decision to leave El Salvador amid mounting harassment, threats, and intimidation by the Salvadoran government. “I am deeply concerned by reports that groups such as @Cristosal and @_elfaro_...
Every time a writer—or an aspiring one—a sociologist, an academic, a forgotten former ambassador, or a philosopher chooses to defend an authoritarian regime, authoritarianism gains more than just a voice: it acquires a disguise. And there is something particularly...
Salvadoran environmentalists have warned that the deforestation of land on the El Espino estate for the construction of the new Centro Internacional de Ferias y Convenciones (International Center for Fairs and Conventions, CIFCO) will heighten the territory’s...
The executive director of Cristosal—the human rights organization that last week announced it is going into exile—expands on the reasons behind its decision to cease operations in El Salvador. The administration of Nayib Bukele and his brothers, says Noah Bullock, has...
