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November 12, 2021 News Release

El Salvador: Shelve ‘Foreign Agents’ Bill

Bukele Promotes Bill to Suffocate Civil Society Groups

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele delivers his annual address to the nation before Congress, in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday, June 1.
November 1, 2021 News Release

El Salvador: Legislature Deepens Democratic Backsliding

Constitutional Reform Could Consolidate Power Grab

Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's president, delivers a speech to Congress at the Legislative Assembly building in San Salvador, El Salvador, on Tuesday, June 1, 2021.
October 28, 2021 Commentary

The rule of law is disintegrating in Central America

Time may be running out for Washington and its allies to hold the region’s miscreant governments to account

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele speaks to his supporters in San Salvador, El Salvador, on February 20, 2020.
September 2, 2021 News Release

El Salvador: New Laws Threaten Judicial Independence

Congress Ousts Dozens of Judges

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele delivers his annual address to the nation before Congress, in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday, June 1.
June 9, 2021 Letter

Human Rights Watch Letter to President Sánchez of Spain

May 21, 2021 Commentary

The U.S. can stop El Salvador’s slide to authoritarianism. Time to act.

President Nayib Bukele speaks at a press conference in San Salvador
March 17, 2021 Commentary

Bukele’s Legislative Victory Threatens Press Freedom in El Salvador

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele speaks to his supporters in San Salvador, El Salvador, on February 20, 2020.
January 8, 2021 Dispatches

No Safe Haven for LGBT People in El Salvador

Strengthen Protections, End Asylum Pact with US

A transgender woman shows a photograph of Camila Díaz, whom she met while migrating to the US, where they both turned themselves in to immigration authorities. Both women were eventually deported.
November 9, 2020 Commentary

El Salvador’s Army, with the President’s Help, Blocks El Mozote Massacre Investigation

October 13, 2020 Commentary

Do LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers Have a Future in the United States?

A group of men and women march walk while holding rainbow pride flags
October 7, 2020 Interview

Interview: LGBT People Flee Violence in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras

Discrimination Follows them from Home to the US Border

A group of men and women march walk while holding rainbow pride flags
July 31, 2020 News Release

El Salvador: Police Officers Convicted for Transgender Murder

Further Efforts Needed to Prevent, Prosecute Hate Crimes

A transgender woman shows a photograph of Camila Díaz, whom she met while migrating to the US, where they both turned themselves in to immigration authorities. Both women were eventually deported.
July 14, 2020 Commentary

Trump Wants to Gut Asylum Claims. LGBTQ+ People Will Die.

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June 9, 2020 News Release

El Salvador: Broad Powers Limit Accountability

No Answers on Covid-19 Test Results, Quarantine, Government Spending

In this May 4, 2020 photo, men wearing protective face masks look out from a building where they are being held for violating a quarantine decreed by the government as part of measures to curb the spread of COVID-19, in San Salvador, El Salvador.
April 29, 2020 News Release

El Salvador: Inhumane Prison Lockdown Treatment

President’s Call for Lethal Force Ignores Basic International Standards

Esta foto, publicada el sábado 25 de abril de 2020 por la oficina de prensa de la presidencia de El Salvador, muestra a reclusos durante una operación de seguridad llevada adelante por la policía en la prision de Izalco en San Salvador, El Salvador.

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