The reform to the Ley Penal Juvenil (Juvenile Criminal Law), which allows sending adolescents to adult detention centers, violates national laws and international guarantees for minors, warns the human rights organization Cristosal. This Wednesday, the Asamblea...
Six minutes after the FGR announced on Twitter that Chicas had been arrested for illicit enrichment, President Nayib Bukele replied to the tweet with four words: “Guerra contra la corrupción” (“War against corruption”). Three minutes earlier, Steffany Ayala, Chicas’s...
The arrest of the former president of the Tribunal Supremo Electoral (Supreme Electoral Tribunal, TSE), Eugenio Chicas, is clearly abusive, arbitrary, and illegal. The pretext for detaining him is a civil lawsuit for alleged illicit enrichment, meaning it is not a...
The tiny Central American nation of El Salvador has long been a U.S. ally. A snapshot of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele last week shows the men smiling, out on a sunny deck in front of a beautiful lake. Rubio, wearing a...
El Salvador’s Congress voted on Wednesday to allow minors convicted of crimes linked to organized crime to be housed in the same prisons as adults, albeit in separate areas. The measure would apply to children under 18 who belong to gangs and have been...
Back in 2021, El Salvador became the first country in the world to require its citizens to use bitcoin for payments. Last month, four years later, it notched another record: it became the first country to rescind bitcoin’s status as required tender. This...
