On Thursday night, President Nayib Bukele took to social media to accuse the opposition of allegedly threatening government employees and exposing the identities of judges and prosecutors. He also implied that he could retaliate. “The opposition has spent all...
The first time El Salvador’s authoritarian President Nayib Bukele tried to pass a sweeping “foreign agents” law, which taxes nongovernmental organizations receiving international funding, the global community came down so swiftly in 2021 that the bill was killed...
It has been one year since Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele began his second term , which has been widely regarded as unconstitutional by legal experts, human rights organizations, and grassroots leaders. A cornerstone of the country’s constitutional framework since...
For the past few months, immigrants around the country have been suing the Trump administration at a furious pace, seeking to stop it from deporting them to a prison in El Salvador under an agreement reached this year between the White House and Nayib Bukele, the...
The bishops of El Salvador generated international headlines with a pastoral letter in May that included a call to the Bukele government to cease offering this small Central American nation as an “international prison.” But their letter, “A voice of hope crying out in...
San Salvador’s 12th Peace Court on Thursday ordered prominent lawyer and human rights defender Ruth López, arrested just over two weeks ago, to be remanded to pre-trial detention. Her trial has been ordered sealed at the request of the Attorney General’s...
