Enrique Anaya, a constitutional lawyer in El Salvador, was apprehended after publicly denouncing President Nayib Bukele as a ‘dictator.’ His detention comes amidst what critics call an authoritarian crackdown on dissent. Bukele’s administration,...
Peru is weighing sending what it considers highly dangerous foreign inmates to prisons in El Salvador, the prime minister said on Thursday, potentially following in the footsteps of the U.S.’ deportations of migrants to the Central American nation. Peruvian...
Democratic Rep. Mark Takano plans to introduce legislation Thursday that would block future U.S. payments to the maximum security prison in El Salvador that holds some of the Trump administration’s highest-profile deportees. The California lawmaker’s bill, first...
Family members of two Venezuelan men deported to El Salvador’s infamous CECOT mega-prison are requesting the government for proof of life of their loved ones. The men in question are Widmen Agelvis Sanguino and Any Hernandez, according to The Associated Press....
Relatives of Venezuelans currently held at the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT) went to El Salvador’s Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman (PDDH) on June 10, 2025, to ask for permission to visit the detainees and check on their health. Johanna...
Three days after the arrest of constitutional lawyer and Nayib Bukele government critic Enrique Anaya, his defense team has not had access to the case file on which the Office of the Attorney General (FGR) is allegedly basing the arrest warrant for money laundering,...
