Alejandro Henríquez and José Ángel Pérez, arrested between May 12 and 13 following a peaceful protest by residents of the El Bosque Cooperative, are accused of public disorder and aggressive resistance, according to the filing submitted by the Prosecutor’s...
In a 22-minute video published May 28 on the Abya Yala Soberana website, Diego Guzmán and Moisés Galeano, two El Bosque Cooperative leaders who managed to escape police repression on May 12, reappeared. Both Guzmán and Galeano had accompanied El Bosque Cooperative...
The knock on the door came at 11pm on a Sunday evening, as Ruth López, a lawyer and anti-corruption investigator at Cristosal, an ngo, was getting ready for bed. Police claimed her car had been involved in an accident, but when she stepped outside they arrested her on...
In summary: El Salvador’s Congress approved a foreign agents law that establishes a 30% tax on donations to non-governmental organizations. The main difference between the Nicaraguan and Salvadoran laws is that the latter establishes a tax and high economic...
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) requested additional information before deciding whether to grant precautionary measures to Salvadoran lawyer and human rights defender Alejandro Henríquez, as confirmed to VOCES by Andrés Alcalá, the Mexican...
With the votes of 57 lawmakers from the Nuevas Ideas party and other pro-government allies, the Legislative Assembly approved the Foreign Agents Law on Tuesday, May 20. The three opposition legislators voted against the regulation, which was approved via a fast-track...
