As he advances along the dimly lit street toward the stop, distant dogs bark and, now and then, a motorcycle shatters the silence. Even at this hour several people are already waiting. He is not alone. Thousands of Salvadorans from Soyapango, Ilopango, San Martín and...
Ángel Flores and César Benedetto Sánchez—members of the Movimiento por la Defensa de los Derechos de la Clase Trabajadora (Movement for the Defense of Working-Class Rights, MDCT) and the Confraternidad de Defensores y Defensoras de Derechos Humanos de América Latina...
When I had the privilege of studying Henry Kissinger’s thought—particularly his memoirs The White House Years—I came to understand that his political realism, the Realpolitik I so often cite, was never an invitation to a clash of civilizations. Rather, it posits that...
At 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, 26 June, three plainclothes police officers arrested twenty-four-year-old Óscar Bennetto Sánchez, son of César Bennetto Sánchez, a member of the Movimiento para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Clase Trabajadora (Movement for the Defense of...
Since the night of Tuesday, 24 June, parents and relatives of forty students from public institutes such as INFRAMEN, INTI, and Albert Camus have been scrambling for information about their children, whom the Fiscalía General de la República (Attorney General’s...
Enrique Anaya was detained by police earlier this month on money laundering allegations just days after calling Bukele a “dictator” on live TV. His arrest has been the subject of an outcry by human rights defenders. “Unfortunately, the result was not what we had hoped...
