Costa Rica, once Central America’s safest nation, is battling a record homicide rate of 17.2 per 100,000 in 2024, fueled by drug trafficking and organized crime. On April 4, 2025, Justice Minister Gerald Campos visited El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center...
Lawyer and human rights defender Jayme Magaña denounced the alleged existence of clandestine graves at the Izalco prison, where fetuses from incarcerated women who suffered miscarriages have reportedly been buried. The denunciation was made during the launch of the...
In a world with an excess of information, differentiating reality from propaganda is becoming increasingly complicated. There are rulers who have taken advantage of the situation to flood networks and media with their own version of “reality.” Rulers have learned that...
In the weeks before March 15, the Trump administration’s preparations for a major operation kicked into high gear. Venezuelan men attending routine check-ins with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ended up leaving in handcuffs. ICE agents fanned out across...
According to Varieties of Democracy, El Salvador is undergoing a process of democratic backsliding, and Nayib Bukele’s government should be considered an electoral autocracy. That is, a system that holds periodic elections but has eroded other democratic...
The harrowing story of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia began six years ago on a March morning, when he dropped his pregnant girlfriend off at her job in suburban Maryland and made his way to a local Home Depot, hoping to find work as a casual day laborer. It took an even...
