As Nayib Bukele completes the first year of his unconstitutional second presidential term, political persecution of human rights defenders intensifies in El Salvador.

Organizations from 21 countries denounce arrests, repression following peaceful protest

Thousands took to the streets on International Workers’ Day to denounce mass public sector layoffs and persecution against union and social movement leaders

Community sounds alarm about judge's former affiliation with National Guard

On April 4, leaders with the Popular Resistance and Rebellion Bloc (BRP) presented an official complaint to the Supreme Court, arguing that recent transfers of Venezuelans from the United States to the maximum security Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) violate the El Salvador’s constitution, as well as international conventions to which it is a signatory.

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