Cristosal, El Salvador’s foremost human rights organization, has halted its operations in the Central American nation and been compelled into exile amid unrelenting pressure from President Nayib Bukele’s administration. This was confirmed to EL PAÍS on Wednesday by...
A federal judge on Long Island chided the Justice Department on Wednesday for trying to “avoid public scrutiny” of its attempts to drop criminal charges against a high-ranking member of the violent street gang MS-13 and quickly deport him to El Salvador, his homeland....
In the span of a year and a half, the Sala de lo Constitucional (Constitutional Chamber) of the Corte Suprema de Justicia (Supreme Court of Justice, CSJ) has released eleven rulings; none of them resolved a criminal-law dispute in favor of the petitioning citizens....
It is noon on the island. Daysi Campos, not yet fifty, pedals home from the mangrove on her bicycle. In her backpack she carries the curil clams she managed to dig up. “It is not much; I only stay out there a short while, I cannot keep working long,” she says one July...
One year ago, an evangelical pastor was compelled to flee El Salvador after facing police persecution for bringing food to detainees swept up in the state of exception and held in the holding cells known as El Penalito, in San Salvador. She is relating her story only...
On June 24, the Fiscalía General de la República (Attorney General’s Office) ordered the arrest of at least 40 students, allegedly linked to a fledgling organization known as La Raza Estudiantil. According to official reports, the Police apprehended 28 students...
