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...
Preventive detention confirmed Salvador Enrique Anaya Barraza—constitutional lawyer and one of the government’s most outspoken critics—will remain in pre-trial detention while his case moves to the formal investigative phase. The Seventh Peace Court of San Salvador...
Former Salvadoran consul Óscar Landaverde criticized President Nayib Bukele for failing to seek relief for the Salvadoran migrant community in the United States, especially at a time when persecution of undocumented individuals has intensified. “They must understand...
The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, enjoys showing his mega-prison to leaders from other countries, who visit in search of inspiration. Christened the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) and inaugurated in January 2023, the facility has space for 40,000 gang...
