Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announced Tuesday that he will ask the Legislative Assembly, which has a pro-government majority, to approve a Foreign Agents Law, which would include a 30% tax on donations received by non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The...
The President of the Republic, Nayib Bukele, posted on his social media on Tuesday that he will send a Foreign Agents Bill to the Legislative Assembly, which will include a 30% tax on all donations received by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). The announcement...
“The State repressed protesters using, for the first time, the Military Police – a force without authority for public order and security tasks.” That was the reaction from Amnistía Internacional (Amnesty International), an organization that defends human...
“We will continue until the very end,” asserted Carlos Flores, representative of the Foro del Agua (Water Forum), following the arrest of Alejandro Henríquez, a lawyer and coordinator of legal affairs for the organization, and also a member of the Asociación de...
Despite the Nayib Bukele government’s effort to sell the idea that the Foreign Agents Law is a version of the U.S. FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act) that regulates the same purpose, the U.S. Embassy Chargé d’Affaires in El Salvador categorically...
In an atmosphere of silence and discretion, family, friends, and colleagues bid a final farewell to bus company owner José Roberto Jaco Carranza, who died in state custody after being arrested on May 7. The farewell for the SEISABUS manager began with a requiem mass...
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