Authorities in El Salvador have arrested the prominent human rights lawyer Ruth Eleonora López, Human Rights Watch said today. On May 18, 2025, at 11 p.m., Salvadoran police arrested López at her home in San Salvador. Prosecutors are accusing López—who currently...
Less than two weeks before starting his second year as an unconstitutional president, Nayib Bukele smoothly secured the approval of the ‘Foreign Agents Law’ targeting NGOs critical of his government and journalists who challenge the regime. The law states it seeks to...
The Foreign Agents Law, which imposes a 30% tax on all transactions and donations received by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and was approved late Tuesday afternoon by the ruling party’s bloc in the Legislative Assembly, would seek to hinder the work of...
The Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the University of El Salvador (UES) today issued a statement expressing its “deep concern” over the arrest of anti-corruption lawyer Ruth López, who is being held at the Land Transit Division after being accused by...
When The Harvard Gazette invited me to participate in an interview about President Nayib Bukele’s recent visit to the White House, I accepted without hesitation. I am a scholar with expertise in El Salvador and welcome any chance to bring nuance, context, and evidence...
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele is suppressing freedoms to stay in power, following the “same path” as Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, warned Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramírez in an interview with AFP. Ortega’s vice president from 1985 to 1990,...
