Human rights organizations, politicians and experts have sharply criticized a law approved by El Salvador’s Congress this ...

El Salvador's Nayib Bukele is a hero of the American right and portrays himself as a hip, innovative disrupter-in-chief ...

Amnesty International and other advocacy groups have called for the immediate release of Ruth López, whose whereabouts are ...

Critics of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele call his "arbitrary" arrest of human rights advocate Ruth López a deepening sign ...

Authorities in El Salvador have arrested a prominent attorney critical of President Nayib Bukele, in a move criticized by ...

At CECOT there are no family visits, no access to the outdoors, no rehabilitation programs. Opened in 2023 by Nayib Bukele — El Salvador's president and self-proclaimed "coolest dictator in the world" ...

in a prison system where 108,000 detainees—1.7 percent of El Salvador’s population—are crammed into spaces meant for 70,000. The U.S. State Department itself has described these conditions ...