(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...
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has turned his foreign policy into a balancing act between two great powers. In March 2019, before taking office, he traveled to Washington and disparaged China: “They do not play by the rules. They are not a democracy, but they...
Spain granted political asylum to Salvadoran lawyers Ivania Cruz and Rudy Joya, spokespersons for the Unidad de Defensa de Derechos Humanos y Comunitarios de El Salvador (Unit for the Defense of Human and Community Rights of El Salvador, Unidehc), who, according to...
