Authorities in El Salvador have arrested a prominent human rights defender amid growing concerns over the government’s repressive anti-crime tactics, suggesting policies once used to attack organized crime are being repurposed to target political opponents. On May 18,...
Sooner or later, every autocracy uses force to silence dissent. The more social support an authoritarian regime loses, the greater its need to resort to persecution and repression to sustain itself. It is part of the authoritarian playbook. In El Salvador, the...
The Chivo Pets veterinary hospital spent in the first quarter of 2025 half of the budget it was slated to receive for the entire year, outspending 23 public hospitals. That finding appears in the latest budget-execution report on the Fiscal Transparency portal, which...
At least five unionists arrested under El Salvador’s state of exception are considered forcibly disappeared, according to Erik Zelaya, spokesperson for the Movimiento por la Defensa de la Clase Trabajadora (Movement for the Defense of the Working Class), as...
A mistake had been made. That much was clear. The Trump administration had deported a Maryland man named Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to a prison in El Salvador, even though a judge had issued a ruling expressly prohibiting that from happening. But when the news...
The Trump administration insists that the Venezuelan men it sent to a notoriously brutal prison in El Salvador were all “illegal aliens” connected to a violent gang, but at least 50 of them entered the country legally, according to a new report by the Cato...
