The human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) joins entities that have expressed concern that the new Ley de Agentes Extranjeros (Foreign Agents Law), approved on May 20 by the Asamblea Legislativa (Legislative Assembly) dominated by the Nuevas Ideas party,...
The gang name was scrawled onto classroom desks and written on bathroom walls. At the school where Kilmar Abrego García spent most of his adolescence, the students all knew who was in charge of the neighborhood: MS-13. It was a prime age for gang recruitment. A...
On the face of it, the USAID money that Kara Wilson García was promised last year for Project RED, her child care-focused nongovernmental organization in El Salvador, had little to do with democracy. She spends most of her time zipping between family homes and...
Two years ago, I went to El Salvador to report on the Nayib Bukele regime’s “war against gangs.” I was able to witness its successes, in neighborhoods previously taken over by violent maras, where neighbors were once again going out into the street...
LATE SUNDAY NIGHT, police in El Salvador arrested one of President Nayib Bukele’s sharpest critics, Ruth Eleonora López, an anti-corruption attorney who has spent years exposing government abuses. “[She] is one of the strongest voices in defense of democracy,” says...
The humanitarian organization Cristosal denounced on Thursday violations of “due process and judicial guarantees” for human rights defender Ruth López, detained on Sunday on a charge of embezzlement, after 72 hours had passed since her arrest. “To date,...
