The Salvadoran dictatorship sent an eloquent message to its critics with the capture of Ruth López on May 18 of this year: It demanded silence, that no one complain, that no one raise their voice. Anyone who speaks out, the message announced, will go to jail. beta.elfaro.net/en/spotlight...

“And running the country like a monarchy creates another problem: In an effort to consolidate power, the Bukeles have prioritized loyalists over competent people with divergent ideas”. www.playboy.com/read/lifesty...

Argentina is experiencing increasing gender-based violence. But newly elected legislators taking office on December 10 have an opportunity to strengthen protections and violence prevention measures. Learn more:

“Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education”, says professor Ronald Purser: www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) carries warm water from the tropics to the Arctic, keeping Europe’s winters mild. Warming temperatures are melting Arctic ice and Greenland's ice sheet, which could disrupt the current's flow with cold freshwater. www.reuters.com/business/env...

The most disconcerting thing about the country ruled by Nayib Bukele is the coexistence between overwhelming popularity and widespread fear. Although more than 80% of Salvadorans approve of his management, almost six out of ten fear reprisals if they criticize the Government f24.my/BYCd

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They said they were told by officials that they would die in the Salvadoran prison, that the world had forgotten them. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

Today @us.theguardian.com columnist Arwa Mahdawi explored the new playbook being used to silence journalists around the world. Join us in 2 weeks to continue the conversation with exiled journalists @kasimkashgar.bsky.social @marianabelloso.bsky.social & @youmnaelsid17.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu

Financial abuse of the elderly is on the rise www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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The shutdown commenced hours after the Senate rejected a short-term spending measure that would have kept government operations afloat through November 21. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

"Bukele now denies that any such negotiations [with the gangs] took place, but this can’t be taken seriously". "Earlier this year,​ Bukele launched a fresh campaign of intimidation against human rights groups". www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

An unlikely firm linked to key Intellexa figures has sprung back to life online: a skincare company called Medovie. Sara Hamou, who played a central role in establishing Cyprus as a hub for Intellexa’s activities, is the co-founder. Read the story:

On 31 July 2025, El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly approved a constitutional amendment allowing indefinite presidential re-election. In this article, Daniel Olmedo examines the legal and political processes behind the reform constitutionnet.org/news/voices/...

After being re-elected —against the Constitution— in February 2024, Bukele started clearing the way for a runway for the new Pacific Airport in the middle of one of the few remaining mangrove forests in the country. The human and ecological impacts are huge: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

El Programa Mundial de Alimentos (PMA) informa que reducirá a la mitad el alcance de su programa en Venezuela este año porque, según dice, el "financiamiento no es suficiente".

This information is not correct. There is no approved project nor budgeted funds. This is an opinion from La Nación that explains the political games the current administration is playing with this initiative.

The new facility, named the Center for High Containment of Organized Crime (CACCO), has been designed to hold 5,100 inmates, increasing Costa Rica's prison capacity by 40%. The government has budgeted the project at $35 million www.reuters.com/world/americ...

An Everett woman and her son were detained by immigration officials in late July when they were coming back into Washington from British Columbia. The labor union representing her is requesting her immediate release.

Officialist lawmakers abolished presidential term limits, paving the way for Nayib Bukele —who has aided Trump’s deportation policy and whose government has jailed tens of thousands in its crackdown on gangs and civil rights groups— to run for re-election indefinitely www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/w...

A combination of high-profile detentions, a new “foreign agents” law, violent repression of peaceful protesters and the risk of imminent government detention has driven more than 100 political exiles to flee #ElSalvador in recent months. apnews.com/article/el-s...

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"They called the police for help, but local law enforcement turned them over to ICE." www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-de...

During hard times, we still look at the sky in search of hope

Desde 2022, el régimen de excepción le ofreció a Bukele la posibilidad de construir un discurso que muchos quieren imitar. ‘Batman’, como le llamaban en las negociaciones entre gobierno y pandillas, sería el justiciero contra el terrorismo. 🎧 Escucha: elhilo.audio/bs4

"They treated us like dogs they picked up in the street," Layzez said. "They are just pulling over people and kidnapping people who are hard-working." www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Medicaid and Medicare turn 60 today. These vital programs have been a lifesaver for millions of people. Now the programs are under attack by Trump and Republicans, who are spreading lies in order to justify devastating cuts — particularly to Medicaid. https://youtu.be/BzMqYttKv1c?feature=shared

Ruth López, a constitutional lawyer devoted to defending Salvadorans' fundamental rights and advancing public transparency, will receive the American Bar Association 2025 International Human Rights Award. The Nayib Bukele regime imprisoned her. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

El Salvador is living under a dictatorship, even if your daily life does not seem to have changed. The long authoritarian night has begun: All power is concentrated in a single person. This person has the security forces and the justice system at their disposal. beta.elfaro.net/en/opinion-e...

He had performed just two weeks ago at what was billed as Black Sabbath’s last concert, a festival titled “Back to the Beginning,” in his and the band’s hometown of Birmingham, England, that amounted to a massive tribute to the legendary band variety.com/2025/music/o...

State Department lawyers aimed to create a paper trail to counter claims that U.S. officials sent people to El Salvador for abuse, which could violate treaty obligations and expose them to potential criminal prosecution abroad. www.justsecurity.org/117271/us-el...

The exchange comes after a previous deal being negotiated fell through, and despite the Trump administration’s insistence in court and in public statements that it did not have the power to compel El Salvador to return the removed migrants to the United States. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The swap partially ended one of the most controversial episodes of President Donald Trump’s second term — the secret removal under a 1798 wartime law and indefinite incarceration without charge of Venezuelan migrants he said were members of a “terrorist” gang. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

One of the officials said El Salvador would send 238 Venezuelans held in its maximum security CECOT prison to Caracas and that the Venezuelan government would release five U.S. citizens and five U.S. permanent residents to American custody. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

The forced exile of some of the only voices publicly attempting to hold Bukele’s government accountable is taking place in the context of a global surge of right-wing authoritarians whose strategies for consolidating power regularly overlap. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

In late June, the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for President Donald Trump's administration to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own without offering them a chance to show the harms they could face. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

The Consumer Price Index increased 0.3% last month after edging up 0.1% in May, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Tuesday. That was the largest gain since January. In the 12 months through June, the CPI advanced 2.7% after rising 2.4% in May. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

The world has lost 411 million hectares of wetlands, the equivalent of half a billion football pitches, and a quarter of the remaining wetlands are now classified as in a state of degradation www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

#ElSalvador: 427 deaths in prison under state of emergency The deceased were being prosecuted, they had no convictions and neither “the profile of #gang members,” warned the organization Socorro Jurídico Humanitario. www.dw.com/es/el-salvad...

The department sent layoff notices to 1,107 civil servants and 246 foreign service officers with assignments in the United States apnews.com/article/layo...

ALERT ‼️ 📢📢 The Nayib Bukele regime has transferred Ruth López to the Granja Izalco Prison, where prisoners have already died and from where complaints of torture have come out. Amnesty International has declared Ruth a prisoner of conscience.

Throughout the beginning of Nayib Bukele’s second presidential term, El Salvador has experienced an alarming increase in the harassment, persecution and criminalization of human rights defenders, journalists, activists, critical voices and civil society organizations. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/pr...

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The dollar is down 13% against the euro on concerns about flip-flopping U.S. trade policies and growth.

I’ve never seen this before. Almost every and each of Delta flights cancelled in Atlanta Airport due to the weather

From Guantánamo to CECOT: Abuses in the name of “national security” 🗓️ June 25, 2025 🕛 12:00 pm ✍️ amn.st/60134zTnx 🗣️Available in English and Spanish To commemorate the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, join a webinar organized by Amnesty International

Rina Monti, directora de Investigación en Derechos Humanos de Cristosal, explica que antes las personas se desplazaban por la violencia de las pandillas, pero ahora lo hacen por la violencia ejercida por el Estado, especialmente por la PNC y la Fuerza Armada www.alharaca.sv/democracia/d...