“You know what? I don’t care if they call me a dictator. I’d rather they call me a dictator than watch Salvadorans be killed in the streets.” This was one of the statements Nayib Bukele made Sunday night at the National Theater to defend his...
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged El Salvador on Friday to repeal its newly enacted “foreign agents” law, calling it a direct threat to press freedom and civil society. The law, approved on May 20 by the Legislative Assembly dominated by President Nayib...
The Santa Tecla First Instance Peace Court held the initial hearing this morning against Alejandro Antonio Henríquez Flores, lawyer for the El Bosque cooperative, and Elim Church pastor José Ángel Pérez Godínez, who were arrested after the demonstration near President...
“Here, it’s Herod’s Law: either you get fucked or get screwed.” – La Ley de Herodes (dir. Luis Estrada, Mexico, 1999) El Salvador approved the Foreign Agents Law this Tuesday. It has been presented as a regulation to control, supervise, and tax...
The Trump administration’s agreement with Nayib Bukele to detain US immigrants deported to El Salvador without due process seems to have emboldened the Salvadorian president’s autocratic regime. Last week, in a troubling sign of escalating repression, Salvadorian...
Alejandro Henríquez and José Ángel Pérez, arrested between May 12 and 13 following a peaceful protest by residents of the El Bosque Cooperative, are accused of public disorder and aggressive resistance, according to the filing submitted by the Prosecutor’s...
