In the context of serious human rights setbacks, the weakening of the rule of law, and the dismantling of institutional controls in El Salvador, the Legislative Assembly, controlled largely by President Bukele’s New Ideas party, passed a Foreign Agents Law without...
Diálogo Interamericano (Inter-American Dialogue) released a report on El Salvador’s democratic situation, concluding that public safety has come at the cost of a consolidation of power and democratic erosion. On March 27, 2022, after a weekend with at least 62...
Last Tuesday night, US immigration authorities reported the capture of a Salvadoran member of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) who had previously been deported from the country. Court documents indicate that the criminal was linked to a sexual offense case in Galveston...
In mid-April, President Donald Trump sat down in the Oval Office with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador to celebrate a new partnership. They had recently negotiated an extraordinary deal in which El Salvador agreed to incarcerate in a maximum security prison...
Our Take ProPublica’s investigation builds on information that was already known, largely due to investigative reporting done within El Salvador over the past several years by the El Faro daily. But the additional revelations in ProPublica’s in-depth and well-sourced...
Days before his arrest outside his daughter’s house in the outskirts of San Salvador, constitutional lawyer Enrique Anaya called Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele a “dictator” and a “despot” on live TV. This week, lawyer Jaime Quintanilla stood outside a detention...
