Armando V. leaves home every morning before sunrise. The commute from his house to the office is barely ten kilometres. With no congestion he would cover the distance in ten to fifteen minutes, yet the morning rush forces him to set out at least an hour early if he...
Nayib Bukele’s dictatorship has reinvented slavery in the twenty-first century. What he markets as “rehabilitation” is nothing more than large-scale human exploitation. Thousands of persons deprived of liberty—many of them not even convicted, merely accused under an...
UN experts* today urged the Government of El Salvador to ensure woman human rights defender Ruth López is granted all fundamental legal safeguards and due process guarantees while in detention. Ruth López is a human rights lawyer and the director of the Justice and...
As Pride Month comes to a close, the family of Andry José Hernández Romero is speaking up on Democracy Now!, pleading for proof of life as the 31-year-old gay Venezuelan asylum-seeker remains missing more than 100 days after being sent to El Salvador’s notorious...
Evangelical churches are often pigeonholed as conservative or “apolitical,” yet history offers another portrait: believers who, compelled by the gospel, have dared to defy human laws they judge unjust or inhumane and therefore contrary to God’s will. For these...
Men with shaved heads, dressed in all-white outfits, walk in a single-file line into a large auditorium with their hands tied behind their backs. They are forced to kneel, then they are bound together in circular formation, facing away from one another. This haunting...
