On May 12, a rural community in El Salvador gathered for a peaceful protest to demand their land rights. Within hours, the government responded with riot-control measures and arrests, sowing fear among the families present. This is how authoritarian regimes react,...
Guatemala’s Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP) has an obsession: it wants, at all costs, to prove in court that Bernardo Arévalo and the Movimiento Semilla party won the 2023 presidential election through fraud. They tried to prove it before the inauguration,...
El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, is on a roll. At home, he enjoys an approval rating of around 83 percent, according to recent polls. His profile is rising abroad, too. Bukele’s follower count on TikTok alone—10.8 million—is much larger than El Salvador’s...
More than 20 international organizations highlighted the negative implications of the Foreign Agents Law (LAEX) in El Salvador, which took effect on June 7. They stated that this regulation is a danger because it seeks to “control and punish human rights...
Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a senior member of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warned that the U.S. Congress will evaluate the course of its bilateral relationship with El Salvador following the imprisonment of lawyer Ruth López and an...
Julia* never thought she would have to abandon her home to flee from those who were supposedly there to protect her. Since the detention of Arnulfo Dolores Flores Echeverría—whom Julia considered not just a stepfather but a central figure of support, guidance, and...
