Cristosal’s director, Noah Bullock, argued that the Foreign Agents Law (Ley de Agentes Extranjeros, LAEX) is less a regulatory framework than a framework for repression against civil society organizations in El Salvador. “This is not a regulatory framework; it is a...
I was working in El Salvador when President Nayib Bukele declared a state of exception. In 2022, after a sudden spike in homicides, he suspended due process and sent soldiers into neighborhoods. Overnight, thousands were detained. Many were guilty. Many were not....
The Fundación para el Desarrollo de las Ciencias Sociales (Foundation for the Development of the Social Sciences, Fudecso) announced on Monday its dissolution after 33 years of operation in El Salvador due to “the current political situation” and the application of...
The wake was held at the Jesuit Rafael Landívar University in Guatemala City, where he died of cardiac arrest on September 5 at the age of 78. “We must pay him the tribute he deserves for all the work he did for Central America,” Spain’s ambassador to Guatemala, Clara...
Ivania Cruz, a spokesperson for the Unidad por la Defensa de Derechos Humanos y Comunitarios de El Salvador (Unit for the Defense of Human and Community Rights of El Salvador, Unidehc), confirmed that Spanish judicial authorities will maintain protective measures for...
A group of victims of the embezzlement at the COSAVI cooperative gathered Monday at the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) to commemorate the first anniversary of the air crash that killed nine people, including the cooperative’s former manager, Manuel Coto,...
