Marta arrived, as usual, to drop off a package of food and personal hygiene products for her son Carlos, who was arrested in April 2022 under the state of exception and is being held at La Esperanza Penitentiary Center, known as Mariona. That day, she received the...
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has never concealed his autocratic tendencies. He had already unabashedly referred to himself as the world’s coolest dictator, but since enjoying the firm embrace of U.S. President Donald Trump, Bukele has grown emboldened. In recent...
Salvadoran leader Nayib Bukele owes his support in Washington to a controversial agreement to hold hundreds of Venezuelans deported from the U.S. in a notorious prison – and to a reputation for having broken the back of the MS-13 gang. “We are not going to...
The Trump administration is being accused again of seeking to quickly dismiss charges against a top MS-13 leader to prevent him from revealing secret dealings with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele. The man in question is Vladimir Antonio Arevalo-Chavez, according to...
Venezuelans deported to El Salvador are increasingly seeing their cases dismissed, a development advocates claim is a way to complete their “disappearance” from the U.S. legal system and further complicate their return from imprisonment in the Central...
El Salvador passed the first review conducted by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on compliance with the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) agreement approved by the organization’s board last February. The progress highlighted in the statement includes the...
