My joy at seeing the Senate’s budget bill trim the levy on remittances to one percent evaporated almost instantly, for the United States is doubling down on an anti-immigrant agenda more draconian than any in its history. Its spearhead is the infamous, inhumane...
For the past several months, the Trump administration has insisted in court that it has no control over the nearly 140 Venezuelan immigrants it deported to a prison in El Salvador this spring under the powers of a rarely used wartime statute. Both in filings and at...
In the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s unlawful transfer of hundreds of migrants to a torture prison in El Salvador, the administration claimed that it had no legal authority to bring them back to the United States. Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele claimed, in...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) advertises on its social networks 56 agromarkets and a wholesale hub as places where the public can obtain food at lower prices. The logistics and stockpiling behind that promise draw no less than $50 million from the...
The First Organized Crime Court ordered alternative measures to pre-trial detention for Montalvo, jailed since May of last year. His defense team had requested a review hearing in November, citing a chronic illness, but the court delayed the proceeding. On Monday,...
Seven months had to pass before Judge Three of San Salvador’s First Organized Crime Tribunal convened a special hearing and replaced pre-trial detention with alternative measures in favor of economist and former FMLN leader Atilio Montalvo, arrested in May 2024. After...
