The human rights situation “has deteriorated” in Brazil, but in El Salvador “there are no credible reports” that abuses are occurring. In Israel and the occupied territories, the only war crimes are perpetrated by Hamas. That is how the United States Department of...
At 44 years old, the self-styled world’s “coolest dictator” has been in power for six years, and has just scrapped constitutional term limits, raising the prospect he could rule for many more. For good measure, he and his allies also passed a...
Democracy in El Salvador crossed a critical threshold at the end of July. The country’s Legislative Assembly, dominated by President Nayib Bukele’s party, passed sweeping constitutional changes that day: presidential term limits were abolished, presidential terms...
The experience of the past 25 years in Latin America is unequivocal: wherever presidential term limits have been eliminated, democracy has eroded, devolving into autocracy or dictatorship masked by sham elections. This is precisely what is unfolding in El Salvador, a...
The First Sentencing Court of San Salvador convened the trial against former San Salvador Mayor Ernesto Muyshondt on August 13. He, along with four other defendants, is accused of allegedly negotiating with gangs in exchange for votes. They are charged with electoral...
RFI spoke with José Artiaga, director of the Salvadoran NGO Legal Humanitarian Aid, to provide an overview of the allegations of torture in El Salvador’s prisons. Under the state of exception decreed in El Salvador and implemented in March 2022 as a measure to...
