Pastoral Guidelines on the Impacts of Mining The Catholic Church has just taken an unprecedented step in its commitment to environmental justice: the official launch of a pastoral guide that forcefully challenges the extractive mining model in Latin America. The...
The six-month pretrial detention imposed by the First Peace Judge of Santa Tecla on environmental lawyer Alejandro Henríquez and evangelical pastor José Ángel Pérez was a politically driven decision aligned with the interests of Nayib Bukele’s dictatorship, not...
Emails and text messages from a Department of Justice whistleblower to members of Congress reveal how top Trump administration officials and government lawyers shifted gears to keep Kilmar Abrego Garcia in a Salvadoran prison despite admitting he was there in error....
Economist and Peace Accords signatory Atilio Montalvo returned to his home this Wednesday after spending more than a year in prison, having been accused of plotting attacks for June 1, 2024—the day of Nayib Bukele’s inauguration for his second term. ...
Through a letter sent to the Ibero-American Institute of Constitutional Law, Italy Section, the Italian ambassador to El Salvador, Paolo Emanuele Rozo Sordini, expressed his solidarity with constitutional lawyer Enrique Anaya. In the missive, the diplomat reports that...
Over the 40 months that the state of exception has been in force, at least 425 people have died while under the custody of the Dirección General de Centros Penales (Directorate General of Penal Centers, DGCP), according to records compiled by Socorro Jurídico...
