Three days after the arrest of constitutional lawyer and Nayib Bukele government critic Enrique Anaya, his defense team has not had access to the case file on which the Office of the Attorney General (FGR) is allegedly basing the arrest warrant for money laundering,...
International legal organizations condemned the June 7 arrest of Salvadoran constitutional lawyer Salvador Enrique Anaya. The Ibero-American Institute of Constitutional Law (Instituto Iberoamericano de Derecho Constitucional, IIDC) expressed its “deep concern and...
Tiny El Salvador wasn’t accustomed to having a leader whose name was widely known outside its borders, but President Nayib Bukele’s political ascendancy has been all about launching himself to international stardom. Eschewing a suit and tie for unbuttoned shirts,...
After the Attorney General’s Office confirmed the arrest of Enrique Anaya, whom it accuses of alleged money laundering, Cristosal issued a statement on the matter. “His arrest comes amid a context of growing criminalization against people who have spoken...
Salvadoran constitutional lawyer Enrique Anaya, a staunch critic of President Nayib Bukele, was detained on Saturday (06/07/2025) on money laundering charges, the Attorney General’s Office reported, in what human rights organizations consider a crackdown aimed...
Two days before Óscar Martínez, editor-in-chief of El Faro, opened the Central American Journalism Forum (ForoCAP) in Costa Rica, an image emerged from El Salvador that may be the clearest illustration yet of what this journalist has been calling out for some time:...