The United States Attorney’s Office has formally requested Judge Joan Azrack of the Eastern District of New York to dismiss the charges against Salvadoran national Vladimir Antonio Arévalo Chávez, alias “Vampiro de Monserrat,” one of the leaders of...
El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly has approved a far-reaching “Foreign Agents” law that grants the government of President Nayib Bukele broad powers to monitor, sanction, and dissolve organizations labeled as foreign agents, Human Rights Watch said today. On May 20,...
The Foreign Agent Law approved this week by the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly has similarities with Nicaragua’s Foreign Agent Law, approved in 2020, and is intended to control and limit the activities of civil society organizations that are inconvenient to the...
The organization Cristosal denounced today that although 72 hours have passed since the detention of lawyer Ruth Eleonora López, the Fiscalía General de la República (Attorney General’s Office) has neither filed charges against her nor presented her before a...
Internal sources from the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman (Procuraduría para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos, PDDH) confirmed to LA PRENSA GRÁFICA the dismissal of the head of the Financial Unit, the head of the Payroll Department, the head of the Human...
The Reverend Lawrence C. Provenzano, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, New York, United States, is considering traveling to El Salvador after learning of the arrest of Ruth Eleonora López, head of Cristosal’s Anti-Corruption and Justice Unit....
