Its director, Alberto Velázquez, says the decision stems from a recommendation by the Ministry of the Interior to the apostolic nuncio, Monsignor Luigi Roberto Cona. Velázquez maintains that the organization never engaged in partisan politics and that its work focused...
The priest also addressed the broad scope of the term “terrorist” cited in the constitutional reform to Article 27 carried out by the Legislative Assembly, as the term is very dangerous in El Salvador, given that a state of exception remains in effect. In...
(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 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...
Over the past few decades, Latin America has undergone transformations in its political systems. Yet within the context of authoritarian or hybrid governments, state practices of persecution against those who challenge the exercise or distribution of public power...
