Environmental organizations and defenders of indigenous rights have denounced the allegedly arbitrary arrest of indigenous defender José Iván Arévalo Gómez, 35, a member of the Movimiento de víctimas y afectados por el cambio climático y corporaciones (Moviac) and of...
Outside of El Salvador, the efforts of searching parents are largely unknown. They regularly walk the streets and paths of the Central American country searching for clues and posting flyers with the names of their missing loved ones on every possible tree, pole, and...
Geovanni Antonio Aguirre López has had alternative measures to detention for over a year, but he has not been able to leave the Izalco Penal Center, according to a complaint from Socorro Jurídico Humanitario (SJH), which has already filed a habeas corpus with the...
In its most recent issue, American magazine Time published an extensive monologue. It called it an interview with the “most popular authoritarian in the world.” To leave no doubt about its editorial stance, it hammered home the slogan “The...
Nuevas Ideas, Nayib Bukele’s party, attempted to approve a temporary law that would have covertly increased the water fee provided by the Administración Nacional de Acueductos y Alcantarillados (ANDA) (National Administration of Aqueducts and Sewers), impacting...
Before he became arguably the most popular head of state in the world, Nayib Bukele was an adman. The President of El Salvador has branded himself the “world’s coolest dictator” and a “philosopher king,” but he is, perhaps above all, a former publicist attuned to the...
