The ruling party lost its composure over the report on the state of exception drafted by five international jurists and presented before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The experts’ conclusion is unequivocal: crimes against humanity have been...
Speaking to an attentive crowd at the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) —the annual gathering of America’s right-wing elite that has since gone global—Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, a man who has branded himself “the world’s coolest...
A 20-year-old Venezuelan who was allegedly tortured at the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) has filed a personal injury claim against the U.S. government through a law firm in Utah. According to attorneys at Parker & McConkie, Johnny Hernández entered the...
The International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger (OIAD) awarded the 2026 Sir Henry Brooke Award to Ruth Eleonor López, a Salvadoran lawyer and human rights defender who has been detained since May 18, 2025. Cristosal, the human rights organization to which López...
“For many years we were contacted by people who made a living extorting. Now, as small business owners, we’ve really benefited from the security we have,” says Lilian Escobar, from her lubricants shop in the district of Ilobasco, in El Salvador....
Uziel de Jesús Gutiérrez Pineda died in the early hours of Tuesday, April 7, on Espíritu Santo Island, in Puerto El Triunfo, Usulután, after a long battle with kidney failure. He was 29 years old. His story, however, isn’t explained just by the illness, but also...
