Carlos was arrested at seven months’ gestation. The baby finished developing inside his mother behind bars, after she was captured on October 12, 2022, on charges of illicit association in Cuscatlán, southeast of San Salvador. Her detention came seven months...
Team WOLA Since its implementation in March 2022, the regime has led to the mass detention of more than 91,000 people, many of them without warrants or sufficient evidence, in a context of serious violations of due process. Both national and international...
Nayib Bukele’s government insists, time and again, that in El Salvador there is no persecution and no arrest warrants against journalists. That is what Vice President Félix Ulloa told ABC a few weeks ago during an interview in Madrid. A claim that is...
Today, more than ever in its recent history, the country needs a strong, economically solid, independent, and courageous press. It is a failure of civil society that it lacked the capacity to sustain a media outlet so obviously under pressure, under attack, and facing...
The conclusion of the report “El Salvador at the Crossroads: Crimes Against Humanity Under Public Security Policy” is unequivocal. It states that the violations committed under the state of exception promoted by Nayib Bukele’s government could...
Here are five keys to explain its implementation: 1. Why was it approved and why does it continue? The state of exception was approved on March 27, 2022, by the Legislative Assembly, dominated by the ruling Nuevas Ideas (NI) party, as an extraordinary measure after a...
