Prisons across Latin America were already bursting at the seams when the “Bukele security model,” characterized by a state of exception that has led to unprecedented numbers of detentions and mass incarceration, began to be embraced by other politicians who have...
While FIFA commits to respecting human rights, combating corruption, and maintaining political neutrality, the de facto power is pushing Salvadoran football in the opposite direction. From chronic crisis to the abyss. Of course, this progress within FIFA is not...
An investigation published by The Washington Post reveals that Elmer Canales Rivera, alias Crook, one of the foundational leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), offered U.S. authorities recordings, photographs, and documents that would implicate Nayib Bukele’s...
Venezuelans who were forcibly deported to a terrorist prison in El Salvador earlier this year have now formally accused ICE officers of beating them to make them get off the airplane. In court declarations last week, four migrants recounted their deportation journey...
The Coordinadora Nacional por la Defensa de la Salud de la Población Salvadoreña (National Coordinator for the Defense of the Salvadoran Population’s Health, CONADESA), composed of more than 50 health sector unions, citizen networks, university groups, and...
A report by the U.S. newspaper The Washington Post revealed that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio pledged to the Government of El Salvador (GOES) the deportation of nine leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang detained on U.S. soil, including some who were...
