“More Than Three Hours in the Thick of the Chaos”: Greater San Salvador’s Traffic Ordeal — “Más de tres horas en medio del caos”: El drama del tráfico en el Gran San Salvador
Many Salvadorans now spend between two and five hours a day trapped in the heavy congestion that has become the new normal throughout Greater San Salvador. Urban-planning specialists warn that the standstill not only cripples mobility but also unleashes a cascade of...
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...