At least five unionists arrested under El Salvador’s state of exception are considered forcibly disappeared, according to Erik Zelaya, spokesperson for the Movimiento por la Defensa de la Clase Trabajadora (Movement for the Defense of the Working Class), as...
A mistake had been made. That much was clear. The Trump administration had deported a Maryland man named Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to a prison in El Salvador, even though a judge had issued a ruling expressly prohibiting that from happening. But when the news...
The Trump administration insists that the Venezuelan men it sent to a notoriously brutal prison in El Salvador were all “illegal aliens” connected to a violent gang, but at least 50 of them entered the country legally, according to a new report by the Cato...
More than one hundred civil society organizations from the Americas and Europe express our deep concern and outrage over the arrest of Ruth López, a Salvadoran lawyer and head of Cristosal’s Anti-Corruption Unit. On the night of Sunday, May 18, agents of the...
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s onslaught against dissenting voices in El Salvador has reached a point of no return. This Tuesday, the Legislative Assembly, under the president’s absolute control, approved the Foreign Agents Law, which will allow him...
Nuevas Ideas and its allies in the Legislative Assembly approved the president’s Foreign Agents Law initiative on Tuesday afternoon through a fast-track procedure. President Nayib Bukele announced the law, which establishes a 30% tax on donations received by...
