The four friends grew up within blocks of one another in Venezuela, playing soccer and bouncing between each other’s homes. As the nation deteriorated, they journeyed to the United States and were eking out a new life in Dallas, where they worked long hours and shared...
New York prosecutors abandoned criminal charges against one of the continent’s most dangerous gang leaders to avoid “damaging” relations with El Salvador’s president. These are the same prosecutors who spent years investigating an arrangement Bukele struck...
The Catholic Church has delivered 150,000 signatures from Salvadoran citizens to the Legislative Assembly, supporting a request to repeal the General Law on Metal Mining, a law passed at the government’s initiative despite widespread public rejection. Church...
Constitutional lawyer Enrique Anaya emphasized that El Salvador has no law authorizing the detention of foreign nationals in Salvadoran prisons without their having been processed through the country’s judicial system for crimes committed there. This raises...
José Luis Fuentes Román is a Salvadoran-American lawyer and member of the Mesoamerica task force of the National Lawyers Guild (Gremio Nacional de Abogados) of the United States, one of 170 human rights organizations calling for protection measures for Fidel Zavala....
This is the story of something that should never have happened. It is a story marked by pettiness, illegality, secrecy, oppression, recklessness, dictatorship. It is the story of men placed where they do not belong. This story also tells what three men did to another...
