The Trump administration’s agreement with Nayib Bukele to detain US immigrants deported to El Salvador without due process seems to have emboldened the Salvadorian president’s autocratic regime. Last week, in a troubling sign of escalating repression, Salvadorian...
More than 300 inmates are working on the remodeling of the Reino de Dinamarca School Center in Soyapango, and 150 on the reconstruction of the ‘Acción Cívica Militar’ National Institute in San Salvador. Supervised by staff from Constructora El Salvador, a...
The arrest of prominent human rights lawyer Ruth López has sent shockwaves throughout the central American nation’s human rights sphere. Professor Mo Hume, a senior lecturer at of Latin American politics at the University of Glasgow, expressed her own concern over the...
Donald Trump is a big fan of El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele and turns a blind eye to his administration’s myriad human rights violations and increasing authoritarianism, in exchange for El Salvador’s accepting deportees of any nationality. But why does Bukele...
For at least the second time since President Donald Trump took office, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deported a migrant in defiance of federal judges — this time a Salvadoran man long held in detention in Western New York. The Trump administration’s most...
The Trump administration knew that the vast majority of the 238 Venezuelan immigrants it sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador in mid-March had not been convicted of crimes in the United States before it labeled them as terrorists and deported them,...
