The Trump administration’s agreement with Nayib Bukele to detain US immigrants deported to El Salvador without due process seems to have emboldened the Salvadorian president’s autocratic regime. Last week, in a troubling sign of escalating repression, Salvadorian...
Alejandro Henríquez and José Ángel Pérez, arrested between May 12 and 13 following a peaceful protest by residents of the El Bosque Cooperative, are accused of public disorder and aggressive resistance, according to the filing submitted by the Prosecutor’s...
In a 22-minute video published May 28 on the Abya Yala Soberana website, Diego Guzmán and Moisés Galeano, two El Bosque Cooperative leaders who managed to escape police repression on May 12, reappeared. Both Guzmán and Galeano had accompanied El Bosque Cooperative...
At eleven o’clock on the night of Sunday, May 18, Salvadoran Police officers arrived at the home of lawyer Ruth Eleonora López. They knocked on the door on the pretext that her vehicle had been involved in a traffic accident and asked to see the documents. Ruth...
Lawyer and human rights defender Ruth López was arrested without a warrant. After being missing for over twelve hours, she is now being held without charge. In the context of a state of emergency, the approval of the new law on “foreign agents” further...
At least 412 people have died in El Salvador’s prisons while in state custody amid the implementation of the state of exception, Socorro Jurídico Humanitario (Legal Humanitarian Aid) reported via its X (formerly Twitter) account. “The worst is already happening,...
