Drivers Pay a Double Price for Traffic: Time and Money — Automovilistas pagan un doble costo por el tráfico: tiempo y dinero
Armando V. leaves home every morning before sunrise. The commute from his house to the office is barely ten kilometres. With no congestion he would cover the distance in ten to fifteen minutes, yet the morning rush forces him to set out at least an hour early if he...
Modern-Day Slavery: Dictator Bukele Uses Unpaid Prison Labor — Esclavitud en Tiempos Modernos: El Dictador Bukele Usa a Reos como Mano de Obra sin Paga
Nayib Bukele’s dictatorship has reinvented slavery in the twenty-first century. What he markets as “rehabilitation” is nothing more than large-scale human exploitation. Thousands of persons deprived of liberty—many of them not even convicted, merely accused under an...
El Salvador: UN experts demand protection for Ruth López after enforced disappearance — El Salvador: Expertas de la ONU exigen protección para Ruth López tras desaparición forzada
UN experts* today urged the Government of El Salvador to ensure woman human rights defender Ruth López is granted all fundamental legal safeguards and due process guarantees while in detention. Ruth López is a human rights lawyer and the director of the Justice and...
Andry Hernández Romero’s family desperate for word on gay asylum-seeker who Trump vanished over 100 days ago — La familia de Andry Hernández Romero, angustiada, suplica noticias sobre el solicitante de asilo gay que Trump hizo desaparecer hace más de 100 días
As Pride Month comes to a close, the family of Andry José Hernández Romero is speaking up on Democracy Now!, pleading for proof of life as the 31-year-old gay Venezuelan asylum-seeker remains missing more than 100 days after being sent to El Salvador’s notorious...