Karen Valladares, Cristosal’s coordinator in Honduras, states that the Salvadoran government is waging a systematic crackdown on human-rights defenders, journalists, and civil-society organizations—a campaign already rippling through the region. On Sunday, 22 June,...
Eviction, for downtown street vendors here, was no surprise. It was a sentence they’d been waiting for. Maritza Trejo first heard the rumors three years ago. As a safeguard, she managed to rent a place that she used as a warehouse for her merchandise. But it was still...
Even before her son was summarily locked up in a Salvadoran prison and cut off from contact with the outside world, Mariela Villamizar was worried about his health. Wladimir Vera Villamizar, a 33-year-old welder from western Venezuela, had recovered from a...
Agreements struck by several Central American governments to receive migrants expelled from the United States are colliding with new legal obstacles. In El Salvador, a letter signed by twelve United Nations experts, made public this week, urgently demands that...
When I had the privilege of studying Henry Kissinger’s thought—particularly his memoirs The White House Years—I came to understand that his political realism, the Realpolitik I so often cite, was never an invitation to a clash of civilizations. Rather, it posits that...
At 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, 26 June, three plainclothes police officers arrested twenty-four-year-old Óscar Bennetto Sánchez, son of César Bennetto Sánchez, a member of the Movimiento para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Clase Trabajadora (Movement for the Defense of...
