Team WOLA Since its implementation in March 2022, the regime has led to the mass detention of more than 91,000 people, many of them without warrants or sufficient evidence, in a context of serious violations of due process. Both national and international...
Nayib Bukele’s government insists, time and again, that in El Salvador there is no persecution and no arrest warrants against journalists. That is what Vice President Félix Ulloa told ABC a few weeks ago during an interview in Madrid. A claim that is...
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...
El Salvador is forcibly disappearing and arbitrarily detaining Salvadorans deported from the United States. The detained people are among more than 9,000 Salvadorans deported by the United States since the start of 2025. Some of them were deported on March 15, 2025,...
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...
