El Salvador’s Authoritarian Turn Authorities in El Salvador detained one of the country’s most prominent human rights lawyers on May 18. The security agents who took Ruth López from her home did not say where she was going or allow her to speak to a lawyer, according...
The El Bosque cooperative was not wrong to go to the private compound where Bukele resides to ask for help. The location is more accessible than the Presidential Palace or the office where he receives important foreign visitors, and, above all, it offers enviable...
President Nayib Bukele launched the “Two Schools a Day” program this Thursday. He made the announcement from San Luis Talpa, in La Paz Oeste, where he inaugurated the Santa Clara School Center, an investment of $3.8 million carried out by the Dirección de...
The Observatory has received information about the arbitrary detention and short-term forced disappearance of Ms. Ruth López, a human rights defender, lawyer, and head of Cristosal’s Anti-Corruption and Justice Unit. Cristosal is a civil society organization,...
The Foreign Agents Law, which sets a 30% tax on all transactions and donations received by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and was approved Tuesday by the ruling party bloc in the Legislative Assembly, would leave it to the government’s discretion to...
More than 70 Organizaciones No Gubernamentales (Non-Governmental Organizations) spoke out this morning to warn about an increase in persecution against individuals and organizations defending human rights in El Salvador. The organizations criticized the recent...
