From State of War to State of Exception — De estado de guerra a régimen de excepción
After President Nayib Bukele introduced a state of exception in March 2022, suspending con- stitutional rights and empowering state forces to carry out indiscriminate arrests, El Salvador has faced its worst human rights situation since the coun- try’s 12-year civil...
The Bukele Model: Will It Spread? — El Modelo Bukele: ¿Se Expandirá?
Decades of mano dura—or “iron fist”—experiments in Latin America suggest that hard-on-crime policies are likely to fail. Yet in El Salvador, a crackdown launched by President Nayib Bukele in 2022 successfully dismantled the country’s gangs, turning...
Inter-American Court points out Salvadoran State’s failure to comply with El Mozote massacre victims’ reparations — CorteIDH señala a Estado salvadoreño de incumplir medidas de reparación a víctimas de El Mozote
The Salvadoran State has not fully complied with the reparation measures for the victims of the El Mozote massacre, according to the latest resolution on compliance supervision of the sentence, published last Friday by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Corte...
Bukele Dismisses Hundreds for Pushing “Incompatible Agendas” — Bukele cesa a cientos por promover “agendas” incompatibles
On Thursday (27.06.2024), El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele announced the dismissal of over 300 people employed by the Ministry of Culture for promoting “agendas” that are incompatible with his government’s vision, which are associated...