On March 27, 2022, at the request of President Nayib Bukele, the Legislative Assembly passed a state of exception, limiting constitutional guarantees and granting unrestricted powers to the security forces of El Salvador. What was supposed to be a thirty-day measure...
Immediate Risks or Disruptions Stockouts: Antiretroviral (ARV) Drugs and Viral Load (VL) Tests: A stockout is anticipated within the next 3 to 6 months. Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP): The HIV Program Unit of the Ministry of Health has only a four-month supply of...
For a moment, imagine you’re Nayib Bukele—the president of El Salvador who calls himself the “coolest dictator in the world”—and, in a burst of digital curiosity, you decide to ask Grok (the new artificial intelligence on X): “Hey, Grok, who is the most popular...
Frengel Reyes Mota was supposed to be dealing with his ongoing asylum case as he fought for his chance to stay in the United States. Suddenly, he instead found himself locked up in a mega prison thousands of miles away. “He’s in the torture prison in El Salvador,”...
Socorro Jurídico Humanitario (Legal Humanitarian Aid, SJH) has documented 380 deaths under the custody of the Salvadoran State, three years after the Legislative Assembly (Asamblea Legislativa) first approved the state of exception on March 27, 2022. “We have...
The United States Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretaria de Seguridad de EE.UU.), Kristi Noem, recently visited El Salvador and toured the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), the mega-prison that holds 250 suspected members of a Venezuelan gang deported from the...
