The so-called “Bukele model”—a reference to Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador since 2019 and now a benchmark for iron-fist policies—has become one of the most debated criminal justice phenomena worldwide. Its results in reducing violence have been...
Ruth López is an open wound on the face of the El Salvador governed by Nayib Bukele, the cool dictator. Bukele threw Ruth in prison a year ago, on May 18, 2025, and to do it, he and his attorney general invented a criminal case. That prosecutor has said Ruth committed...
The nongovernmental organization Cristosal publicly denounced, in an official statement, that human rights defender and Salvadoran attorney Ruth López was admitted to a hospital in San Salvador and underwent emergency surgery. The organization added that the...
From exile in Guatemala City, the organization Cristosal reported that Ruth López’s family learned last weekend of health problems affecting the lawyer and notary, who was reportedly admitted to and underwent a procedure at a hospital in San Salvador. However,...
Relatives and the legal defense team of attorney Ruth Eleonora López have asked the Salvadoran State to guarantee her health, after learning that she was admitted to a hospital in San Salvador and underwent a procedure last Saturday, May 16. They stated that they were...
One year after the arbitrary detention of Ruth López, Amnesty International is reiterating its concern over the human rights violations committed against her and calling on the Salvadoran authorities to fully guarantee her due process rights, end her incommunicado...
