Peter Certo Who of us has the right to live without fear? This is the question human rights lawyer Ruth Lopez has asked fearlessly in El Salvador — the country of my birth — for decades. It’s a question we all need to ask ourselves in the United States as well. For...
The Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) and the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) stated that they do not have detailed statistical records on arrests, releases, and the judicial status of proceedings linked to the state of exception. Both entities claimed that the...
Written By Victoria Cojab On April 21, El Salvador began its largest mass trial so far, for 486 inmates accused of being members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang (MS-13). The transnational criminal organization is allegedly responsible for more than 47,000 crimes,...
One of Latin America’s most complex and sensitive debates is playing out in El Salvador today: how far can a state go in the name of security without putting human rights and fundamental guarantees at risk? Nayib Bukele’s government achieved something that...
The Collective of Trade Unionists in Exile called on the international community to keep El Salvador on the Short List of serious cases examined by the International Labour Organization (ILO), arguing that systematic violations of freedom of association, anti-union...
The creation of new rules for merchandise confiscation procedures in San Salvador Centro, carried out by the Metropolitan Agents Corps (CAM), offers no guarantees to the capital’s vendors, merchants said Monday, pointing to the arbitrary enforcement of these...
