Members of the Comité de Familiares de Presos y Presas Políticos (Cofappes) (Committee of Relatives of Political Prisoners, Cofappes) and the Alianza Nacional El Salvador en Paz (National Alliance El Salvador at Peace) on May 30 called for the release of the veterans...
As El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele marks his sixth anniversary in office, the country’s Catholic bishops have published a pastoral letter warning of the risk of turning the Central American nation into a “large international prison” and demanding an end to the...
Under the title “A voice crying out with hope in the wilderness,” the Conferencia Episcopal de El Salvador (CEDES) (Episcopal Conference of El Salvador) issued its most recent Pastoral Letter, urgently calling on Salvadoran society not to lose hope, to recover its...
“President Nayib Bukele’s foreign agents law is a blatant move to silence dissent and dismantle what remains of El Salvador’s independent press,” said Cristina Zahar, CPJ’s Latin America program coordinator, in São Paulo. “By forcing journalists and civil society...
The Trump administration deported a 31-year-old Salvadoran man minutes after a federal appeals court barred his removal while his case proceeded, the government admitted in a court filing this week. In its filing, the government denied that it had violated the order...
The Trump administration has admitted that it improperly deported another immigrant in violation of a court order — the fourth known case in which the administration deported someone erroneously or in breach of specific legal requirements. Jordin Melgar-Salmeron, an...
