The recent elimination of presidential term limits in El Salvador lays bare an autocratic project. Where checks and balances give way, the leader no longer governs within the law: the law bends to serve the leader. Nayib Bukele, hailed by his followers as the surgeon...
For nearly half a century, the State Department has reported annually on human-rights conditions in countries around the world. The purpose of this exercise is not to cast aspersions, but to collect and disseminate reliable information. Congress mandated the reports...
The State Department on Tuesday released an annual collection of reports on human rights records in nearly 200 nations, but left out language on persistent abuses in many nations that was present in prior reports. The omissions were another sign of the Trump...
The human rights situation “has deteriorated” in Brazil, but in El Salvador “there are no credible reports” that abuses are occurring. In Israel and the occupied territories, the only war crimes are perpetrated by Hamas. That is how the United States Department of...
At 44 years old, the self-styled world’s “coolest dictator” has been in power for six years, and has just scrapped constitutional term limits, raising the prospect he could rule for many more. For good measure, he and his allies also passed a...
Democracy in El Salvador crossed a critical threshold at the end of July. The country’s Legislative Assembly, dominated by President Nayib Bukele’s party, passed sweeping constitutional changes that day: presidential term limits were abolished, presidential terms...
