What is behind the recent politically motivated arrests in El Salvador, and what are their consequences for the country’s rapidly deteriorating democracy? DPLF’s Program Director, Leonor Arteaga, discusses attacks on Salvadoran civil society on the CSIS’s 35 West podcast.
Katya Salazar, DPLF’s Executive Director, shared her views with The Dialogue on El Salvador’s recently approved anti-NGO law (“Foreign Agents Law”).
Ursula Indacochea, director of our Judicial Independence program, shares her views with AP News on Mexico’s first judicial election process.
In an op-ed for The Dallas Morning News, our Leonor Arteaga and Hannah Ahern outline concerns about crimes against humanity under El Salvador’s indefinite “state of exception”, where civil rights and constitutional guarantees have been suspended.
The pioneering organization in the search for children abducted by the army in the 1980s continues to face a lack of interest from the government in power. The authoritarian government of President Nayib Bukele weakens the institutions created to clarify the truth about minors who have been…
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele was re-elected Sunday in a landslide, garnering 83 percent of the vote, according to provisional results. Critics have said that Bukele’s run for immediate re-election violated the constitution and that his security crackdown has led to human rights violations…
Thousands of Salvadoran families are experiencing the same anxiety after the government arrested more than 24,000 people since the state of exception began on March 27. The government says it is arresting “terrorists” and gang members to take control of the streets after a spike in homicides…
In recent weeks, El Salvador has seen a tragic return to some of the country’s most violent years. At least 80 people were killed on the weekend of March 26-27, and in response, President Nayib Bukele quickly summoned the Legislative Assembly, which in the early hours following the killing spree declared a state…
More than thirty years later, the Central American country is still seeking justice for the killing of six Jesuit priests.
El Salvador’s five legitimate Constitutional Court judges, among the last bastions of their country’s democracy, were in a quandary…
The judicial systems of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador (the Northern Triangle) are in crisis due to the politicization of their institutions. The citizens of the Northern Triangle expect that their rights and freedoms will be guaranteed through judicial independence and integrity. The citizens…
