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

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

President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gangs has brought peace to El Salvador, but the price, some Salvadorans say, has been the loss of civil liberties. “We used to be afraid of the gangs ...

A new law, championed by President Nayib Bukele, is seen by advocates as an effort to stifle dissent in El Salvador.

Since 2022, Mr. Bukele has kept in place a state of emergency that allows authorities to carry out arrests at will, sidestepping due process. Image President Nayib Bukele at the White House in April.

SAN SALVADOR — Their news site had just exposed details of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s alleged deals with the country’s gangs. Now the three journalists were faced with a choice they ...

Ruth Eleonora López was an outspoken critic of President Nayib Bukele. López’s supporters call the charges against her part of the Bukele government’s “systematic strategy of ...

López has been an outspoken critic of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele. She and her organization have documented human rights abuses in El Salvador — including inhumane conditions in jails and ...

Authorities in El Salvador have arrested a prominent attorney critical of President Nayib Bukele, in a move criticized by rights groups who say it reflects an increasing trend of ...

“Warrants, if issued, would be the first here in decades to target journalists for their work, according to El Faro, ‘the most frontal state assault on press freedom in El Salvador since Bukele came ...

Ruth Eleonora López, 47, a senior figure at the rights group Cristosal and a vocal critic of El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, a Trump ally, was detained late on Sunday. The arrest was ...

Police arrested her at her residence on Sunday. Sign up here. Cristosal has sharply criticized President Nayib Bukele's hardline security policies and warned of possible irregular use of public ...