Dozens of journalists from El Salvador have gone into exile over the last month in the face of escalating government harassment, intimidation and arbitrary press restrictions, according to the Journalists Association of El Salvador. The group, known by its Spanish...
APES has documented the forced displacement of no fewer than forty reporters in recent months, most of them in the last few weeks. It attributes the exodus to “harassment, intimidation, and arbitrary restrictions” imposed by Salvadoran officials on their journalistic...
In July 2023 the Legislative Assembly adopted a decree of “special transitional provisions” for prosecuting detainees swept up under the state of exception that underpins President Nayib Bukele’s March 2022 “war” on gangs. The measure raised the ceiling on pretrial...
The Movimiento de Víctimas del Régimen de Excepción (Movement of Victims of the State of Exception, MOVIR) marched to the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday to demand that legislators refuse to renew the transitional decree that allows the Fiscalía General de la...
Last week the Instituto Universitario de Opinión Pública (Institute of Public Opinion, IUDOP) released its survey assessing Nayib Bukele’s sixth year in office. The administration’s propaganda and disinformation apparatus—the “trolls,” paid analysts, and Bukele...
On Wednesday, APES reported that three National Civil Police officers appeared at the Mejicanos district home of Guillermo Cartagena, a reporter for the digital outlet Gato Encerrado. According to the alert, the officers questioned the household about basic utility...
