Donald Trump is a big fan of El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele and turns a blind eye to his administration’s myriad human rights violations and increasing authoritarianism, in exchange for El Salvador’s accepting deportees of any nationality. But why does Bukele...
For at least the second time since President Donald Trump took office, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deported a migrant in defiance of federal judges — this time a Salvadoran man long held in detention in Western New York. The Trump administration’s most...
The Trump administration knew that the vast majority of the 238 Venezuelan immigrants it sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador in mid-March had not been convicted of crimes in the United States before it labeled them as terrorists and deported them,...
Alejandro Henríquez and José Ángel Pérez, arrested between May 12 and 13 following a peaceful protest by residents of the El Bosque Cooperative, are accused of public disorder and aggressive resistance, according to the filing submitted by the Prosecutor’s...
In a 22-minute video published May 28 on the Abya Yala Soberana website, Diego Guzmán and Moisés Galeano, two El Bosque Cooperative leaders who managed to escape police repression on May 12, reappeared. Both Guzmán and Galeano had accompanied El Bosque Cooperative...
The knock on the door came at 11pm on a Sunday evening, as Ruth López, a lawyer and anti-corruption investigator at Cristosal, an ngo, was getting ready for bed. Police claimed her car had been involved in an accident, but when she stepped outside they arrested her on...
