The constitutional lawyer Enrique Anaya has been committed to the investigative phase of the proceedings and remanded to provisional custody following this week’s initial hearing in the Juzgado Séptimo de Paz (Seventh Justice of the Peace Court). In response, his...
“Better to laugh before you cry. And if you still have a voice, mock them…” Peasant wisdom from Morazán When the state-of-exception shredder runs out of gang members to imprison, it simply fabricates a new gang—or floats wild claims about forty thousand hidden gang...
The president of the Cámara Agropecuaria y Agroindustrial de El Salvador (Agricultural and Agro-industrial Chamber of El Salvador, CAMPO), Luis Treminio, confirmed on Thursday that the supply of domestically grown beans was depleted in June and that markets are now...
Ángel Flores and César Benedetto Sánchez—members of the Movimiento por la Defensa de los Derechos de la Clase Trabajadora (Movement for the Defense of Working-Class Rights, MDCT) and the Confraternidad de Defensores y Defensoras de Derechos Humanos de América Latina...
“With the last breath God allows me I will keep denouncing the arbitrary acts of the Salvadoran State—specifically those of the dictator Nayib Bukele—for as long and as far as I can,” declared Ingrid Escobar, director of Socorro Jurídico Humanitario (Legal...
I believe I have studied the gang phenomenon long enough—far too many years, in fact—to assert that this interview with Gustavo Villatoro, Security Minister in President Nayib Bukele’s government, contains genuinely new and thought-provoking information, particularly...
