Mrs. Delmy Cortéz swears that she sees him. Sometimes, she imagines him arriving home on his bicycle and greeting her through the living room window, or ordering tortillas with cheese. She revels in these images, until reality overshadows everything. It’s been almost...
Installing spyware, intercepting a journalist’s work and jailing them. Accusing communities of terrorism for protesting pollution or water shortages. Passing laws to discredit and imprison judges who have done their jobs. Amending legislation to put communal...
This Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) stated that the third plane used last Saturday to deport Venezuelan citizens to El Salvador did not violate a court order issued minutes before its takeoff because all of its passengers had “final removal orders,” and...
On March 15, the U.S. government deported 238 male Venezuelan citizens on three flights to El Salvador, accusing them of being part of a transnational gang known as Tren de Aragua, which President Trump has labeled a foreign terrorist group and wartime enemy. Upon...
A tattoo resembling the logo of Real Madrid, his favorite team, appears to have been enough for the Donald Trump administration to decide that 36-year-old Venezuelan professional soccer player Jerce Reyes Barrios was a dangerous terrorist and a member of the Tren de...
In a new production staged with cinematic ambitions, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele presented another video of his mega-prison to the world last Sunday: the Centro de Confinamiento para el Terrorismo (CECOT) (Terrorism Confinement Center). In the footage, dozens of...
