By Napoleón Campos The history of the American hemisphere since World War II illustrates the political adoption and cooperative implementation of collective security shields. The postwar shock was so profound that first came the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal...
(Washington) – El Salvador is forcibly disappearing and arbitrarily detaining Salvadorans deported from the United States, Human Rights Watch said today, one year after some of the men were sent to El Salvador. The detained people are among more than 9,000 Salvadorans...
By Thomas Graham The draconian mass incarceration policy of El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, may have led to crimes against humanity, according to a new study by legal experts. By locking up 1.4% of the population without due process, Bukele turned El Salvador...
By Sarah C. Bishop Baruch College, City University of New York Pressing Issues in Latin America (PILA) publishes select reports, papers, and data from research centers in Latin America. We also invite researchers and academics who specialize in this region to...
The International Group of Experts for the Investigation of Human Rights Violations under the State of Exception in El Salvador (GIPES)—established in 2024—has reported that there are reasonable grounds to conclude that crimes against humanity are being committed in...
By Héctor Silva Ávalos The main conclusion of the five jurists who signed the report on crimes against humanity within the framework of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s public security policy is easy to understand. The State, they say, has an obligation to...
