“Here, it’s Herod’s Law: either you get fucked or get screwed.” – La Ley de Herodes (dir. Luis Estrada, Mexico, 1999) El Salvador approved the Foreign Agents Law this Tuesday. It has been presented as a regulation to control, supervise, and tax...
As has happened every month, at the request of Nuevas Ideas and through a fast-track procedure, the Legislative Assembly, dominated by the ruling party, approved another extension to the state of exception decree. This regime suspends three constitutional rights and...
El Salvador’s Ministry of Defense purchased ten Yagu armored vehicles for $2.6 million. On October 11, 2021, Minister of Defense René Merino Monroy authorized the purchase from IBN Military Industries Inc, a U.S.-domiciled company, according to the contract...
The Trump administration’s agreement with Nayib Bukele to detain US immigrants deported to El Salvador without due process seems to have emboldened the Salvadorian president’s autocratic regime. Last week, in a troubling sign of escalating repression, Salvadorian...
More than 300 inmates are working on the remodeling of the Reino de Dinamarca School Center in Soyapango, and 150 on the reconstruction of the ‘Acción Cívica Militar’ National Institute in San Salvador. Supervised by staff from Constructora El Salvador, a...
The arrest of prominent human rights lawyer Ruth López has sent shockwaves throughout the central American nation’s human rights sphere. Professor Mo Hume, a senior lecturer at of Latin American politics at the University of Glasgow, expressed her own concern over the...
