In mid-April, President Donald Trump sat down in the Oval Office with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador to celebrate a new partnership. They had recently negotiated an extraordinary deal in which El Salvador agreed to incarcerate in a maximum security prison...
Enrique Anaya, a constitutional lawyer in El Salvador, was apprehended after publicly denouncing President Nayib Bukele as a ‘dictator.’ His detention comes amidst what critics call an authoritarian crackdown on dissent. Bukele’s administration,...
Relatives of Venezuelans currently held at the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT) went to El Salvador’s Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman (PDDH) on June 10, 2025, to ask for permission to visit the detainees and check on their health. Johanna...
Three days after the arrest of constitutional lawyer and Nayib Bukele government critic Enrique Anaya, his defense team has not had access to the case file on which the Office of the Attorney General (FGR) is allegedly basing the arrest warrant for money laundering,...
International legal organizations condemned the June 7 arrest of Salvadoran constitutional lawyer Salvador Enrique Anaya. The Ibero-American Institute of Constitutional Law (Instituto Iberoamericano de Derecho Constitucional, IIDC) expressed its “deep concern and...
Tiny El Salvador wasn’t accustomed to having a leader whose name was widely known outside its borders, but President Nayib Bukele’s political ascendancy has been all about launching himself to international stardom. Eschewing a suit and tie for unbuttoned shirts,...
