Simply being in the United States without a legal immigration status is a civil matter—not a criminal one. Yet Donald Trump’s regime increasingly treats immigrants like criminals. In March, the administration sent more than 200 immigrants to El Salvador’s Terrorism...
The detention and deportation of 19-year-old Merwil Gutiérrez Flores to a megaprison in El Salvador earlier this year set off a huge firestorm when it was first reported by Documented because the Venezuelan had no criminal record and a pending asylum application. But...
Attacks against journalists and human rights defenders in El Salvador increased by 135.8% during 2024, according to the most recent report from the Mesa por el Derecho a Defender Derechos (Working Group for the Right to Defend Rights), which was presented this...
President Nayib Bukele has not fulfilled his promise to build cultural and educational facilities in three prisons that were closed four years ago, a commitment made on April 16, 2021. Four years after that commitment, one of the facilities lies abandoned after its...
In February 1977, Pope Paul VI appointed Óscar Arnulfo Romero as Archbishop of San Salvador. These were turbulent Cold War times when the dead were borne by peripheral peoples—far from Moscow and Washington, D.C.—in Indochina, the Horn of Africa, and Central America,...
Recent detentions of community leaders, human rights defenders, and peasant farmers in the El Triunfo canton, Santa Tecla, have raised alarms about the closing of democratic spaces in El Salvador. Various sectors warn that the state’s use of force against...
