UN Rapporteur: “When a government has skeletons in the closet, it doesn’t want to uncover those from previous regimes” — Relator ONU: “Cuando un Gobierno tiene cadáveres en el clóset, no quiere sacar los de los regímenes anteriores”

09/21/2023

The Ecuadorian lawyer attributes this inaction to the continued economic and military interests that obstruct access to truth, justice, reparation, and guarantees of non-repetition for the victims of the Salvadoran armed conflict. According to Albán, the Bukele...

Families Hold New March in Colombia for Foreigners Captured in State of Emergency in El Salvador — Familias realizan nueva marcha en Colombia por extranjeros capturados en régimen de El Salvador

09/21/2023

Several families marched to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, to demand the release of Colombians captured under the state of emergency in El Salvador, about whom they have little information during their time in prison. With banners...

Bukele defends at the UN measures questioned for violating human rights — Bukele defiende en ONU medidas cuestionadas por violar los derechos humanos

09/20/2023

In his speech at the 78th United Nations General Assembly this Tuesday, the President of the Republic, Nayib Bukele, justified changes in the judicial system, made with the support of Nuevas Ideas in the Legislative Assembly, to combat criminality. He criticized the...

Bukele can still resign from illegal reelection, says SUMAR — Bukele aún puede renunciar a reelección ilegal, dice SUMAR

09/19/2023

“We reiterate the call to respect democracy, institutions, and the rule of law, especially to the current president of the republic, who still has time to renounce his unconstitutional aspirations of getting reelected and perpetuating himself in power,”...

At least 100,000 minors left unprotected due to the state of emergency in El Salvador — Al menos 100,000 menores en desamparo por estado de excepción en El Salvador

09/19/2023

On March 3, 2022, Gabriela, Nayib Bukele’s wife, promised as the first lady the construction of the “El Nido” Maternity Center with Love as a new space for the care of children in El Salvador. At the end of that same month, the government initiated a...

El Salvador: The Indefinite Exception — El Salvador: la excepción indefinida

09/18/2023

When El Salvador celebrates its Independence Day on September 15th, it will have been in a state of indefinite exception for a year and a half. Elected in June 2019, President Nayib Bukele, a young millionaire and former PR executive, has remilitarized politics and...