Today we have a collection of links from the international press, covering topics from US deportations to E Salvador, to the hotel industry, to the State of Exception and MS-13.| El Salvador Perspectives
Nayib Bukele has just had another of his critics arrested. The government of El Salvador Saturday detained prominent attorney Enrique Anaya. The constitutional lawyer frequently spoke in public and wrote on social media, about the constitution and the rule of law in El Salvador. He has been an outspoken critic of Nayib Bukele's capture of the judicial system in El Salvador and violations of the constitution. Anaya is purportedly being charged with money laundering, and his detention f...| El Salvador Perspectives
On June 1, Nayib Bukele delivered a speech to the nation from the National Theater in San Salvador, on the first anniversary of commencing his unconstitutional second term as president. In a large portion of his address, Bukele described sinister globalist forces who want to thwart his project and return El Salvador to a time of gang-controlled misery. | El Salvador Perspectives
The arrest of a prominent anti-corruption lawyer in El Salvador is highlighting the increased willingness of Nayib Bukele's government to ar...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
Izalco prison Last month human rights groups released important reports documenting human rights abuses suffered under the State of Exceptio...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
March 27 is the three year anniversary of the State of Exception in El Salvador. This suspension of constitutional due process protections as part of a war on gangs was adopted by the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly in the midst of a bloody weekend in March 2022 in which gangs murdered at least 87 people around the country. Under the State of Exception, security forces of the police and military can arrest anyone without a warrant or observing them commit a crime, can hold them for 15 days ...| El Salvador Perspectives
The weekend of March 15-16 saw the first implementation of Nayib Bukele's offer to the United States to act as the offshore jailers of perso...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
On the morning of February 25, Fidel Zavala was outside of the office of El Salvador's human rights public advocate (PDDH) to denounce the arbitrary arrests four days earlier of two community activists from Hacienda La Floresta. Zavala is spokesperson for a group calling itself the Unit of Defense of Human and Community Rights (UNIDEHC for its initials in Spanish). UNIDEHC is leading a fight against the expulsion of approximately 250 families from their dwellings at La Floresta. | El Salvador Perspectives
Today the InterAmerican Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) issued a 354 page report titled The State of Exception and Human Rights in El S...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
Recent articles in English about El Salvador that are worth perusing:| El Salvador Perspectives
On January 29, 2025, El Salvador's Legislative Assembly passed a resolution extending for the 35th time the State of Exception under which the country's residents have lived since March 27, 2022. There was no debate. There was no evidence presented of the emergency circumstances required by the Salvadoran constitution to justify the suspension of rights to due process in the criminal justice system and warrantless interception of communications. Where would such evidence come from t...| El Salvador Perspectives
Measures the Legislative Assembly passed for Nayib Bukele On January 29, El Salvador's Legislative Assembly gave the second vote to adopt a...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
El Salvador news, politics, culture, events with coverage of Nayib Bukele, Nuevas Ideas government and diverse media sources by Tim Muth| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
One common assertion by proponents of the current State of Exception in El Salvador is that the justice system will correct errors and only ...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
September 2023 parade in Tonacatepeque I do not often write in the first person in this space, but as I develop this series of posts at the ...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
This is the second of my series on the State of Exception in El Salvador as it starts its third year. Today we look at the prisons holding...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
March 27 is the two year anniversary of the State of Exception in El Salvador. This suspension of constitutional due process protections as...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com