The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Association and Assembly, Gina Romero, urged El Salvador to guarantee freedom and a “fair trial” for anticorruption lawyer and human rights defender Ruth López, detained almost a year ago. “What is...
PEN International ‘Actions targeting Salvadoran media outlets, journalists and authors represent a grave attack on freedom of expression and society’s right to be informed. The weaponisation of judicial, fiscal, and administrative mechanisms to intimidate,...
The Latin American Post Staff In El Salvador, constitutional reform has become political speed, as Nayib Bukele’s allies reshape elections, courts, punishment, and representation, raising a regional warning about democracy, popularity, security, and the quiet legal...
Rachel Hinton CHICAGO — M.G.’s heart pounded. His palms were slick with sweat. He and 100 others had just boarded a deportation flight with no clue where it would take them. M.G. was relieved to be out of detention, where he’d spent the previous eight months. But he...
During the commemoration of the 141st anniversary of the Salvadoran Red Cross, the president of the movement in our country, José Benjamín Ruiz, addressed the possibility of expanding humanitarian assistance in El Salvador’s prisons in the context of the state...
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Gina Romero, said Friday that the Ruth López case has not been resolved following a document sent to the Salvadoran government in June 2025. On July 7, 2025, United...
