Two years ago, I went to El Salvador to report on the Nayib Bukele regime’s “war against gangs.” I was able to witness its successes, in neighborhoods previously taken over by violent maras, where neighbors were once again going out into the street...
LATE SUNDAY NIGHT, police in El Salvador arrested one of President Nayib Bukele’s sharpest critics, Ruth Eleonora López, an anti-corruption attorney who has spent years exposing government abuses. “[She] is one of the strongest voices in defense of democracy,” says...
The humanitarian organization Cristosal denounced on Thursday violations of “due process and judicial guarantees” for human rights defender Ruth López, detained on Sunday on a charge of embezzlement, after 72 hours had passed since her arrest. “To date,...
The United States Attorney’s Office has formally requested Judge Joan Azrack of the Eastern District of New York to dismiss the charges against Salvadoran national Vladimir Antonio Arévalo Chávez, alias “Vampiro de Monserrat,” one of the leaders of...
El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly has approved a far-reaching “Foreign Agents” law that grants the government of President Nayib Bukele broad powers to monitor, sanction, and dissolve organizations labeled as foreign agents, Human Rights Watch said today. On May 20,...
The Foreign Agent Law approved this week by the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly has similarities with Nicaragua’s Foreign Agent Law, approved in 2020, and is intended to control and limit the activities of civil society organizations that are inconvenient to the...
