The news reached Doña Gladis Villatoro, his mother, on Sunday, July 20. Her son, Williams Díaz, had been transferred from the Izalco Prison to Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), the megaprison touted by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a model facility...
The Venezuelan Attorney General office on Monday announced an investigation into allegations of torture of migrants sent to an El Salvador prison from the US. The more than 250 Venezuelans were returned home on Friday in a prisoner exchange with the US. They had been...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the first review of El Salvador’s program on June 27 and, in mid-July, released the staff report (the Report). The document makes it possible to assess how the Salvadoran government implemented the program up to the...
The U.S. State Department has now declassified (from the level of “confidential”) and publicly released the text of three documents pertaining to the “dirty deal” between the United States and El Salvador for the transfer and indefinite detention of alleged members of...
Jorge Rodríguez, Chavismo’s chief negotiator, declared last Saturday in remarks broadcast by state-run Venezolana de Televisión (VTV) that the talks to free 252 Venezuelans involved only the United States. The deal to release 252 Venezuelan migrants imprisoned in El...
Democratic Congressman Gregory W. Meeks voiced alarm over Cristosal’s recent decision to leave El Salvador amid mounting harassment, threats, and intimidation by the Salvadoran government. “I am deeply concerned by reports that groups such as @Cristosal and @_elfaro_...
