The United States Attorney’s Office has formally requested Judge Joan Azrack of the Eastern District of New York to dismiss the charges against Salvadoran national Vladimir Antonio Arévalo Chávez, alias “Vampiro de Monserrat,” one of the leaders of...
The Foreign Agents Law, which sets a 30% tax on all transactions and donations received by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and was approved Tuesday by the ruling party bloc in the Legislative Assembly, would leave it to the government’s discretion to...
More than one hundred civil society organizations from the Americas and Europe express our deep concern and outrage over the arrest of Ruth López, a Salvadoran lawyer and head of Cristosal’s Anti-Corruption Unit. On the night of Sunday, May 18, agents of the...
The National Civil Police arrested Ruth Eleonora López Alfaro, a lawyer and the legal director of Cristosal, on Sunday night. The Attorney General’s Office published a tweet confirming the administrative detention order against López, who is accused of...
“Have some decency, this will end one day. You can’t lend yourselves to this,” lawyer Ruth López told the police officers who came to arrest her at her home this Sunday, around 11 p.m., according to a recording of the moment of arrest to which El Diario de Hoy...
Some days seem like years. In the last two weeks, Nayib Bukele’s unconstitutional government has made it clear that its greatest weakness is not the problems it causes, but the narrative surrounding them. Narratives are those stories woven on social media and in...
