Category Archives: Human Rights

Recursos para reportar violaciones a DDHH durante el régimen de excepción

Dado el temor que sienten muchas personas, especialmente jóvenes, en las zonas rurales en las que trabaja CRIPDES, hemos creado esta compilación de recursos para facilitarles el reporte de violaciones a Derechos Humanos que puedan sufrir durante la extensión del régimen de excepción implementado por el gobierno salvadoreño.   TELÉFONOS PROCURADURÍA PARA LA DEFENSA DE […]

Labor day Statement: CRIPDES denounces intimidation and threats by the government against organized labor

On Thursday April 28th, during a press conference, the Minister of Labor said that May 1st marchers will be relatives, collaborators or financiers of criminal groups or gangs of El Salvador.

Results of the State of exception / Resultados del estado de excepción

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO)   After the Nayib Bukele administration declared a state of emergency on March 27 in response to the rise in homicides over a weekend, several human rights violations have been reported. In addition to the unjustified raid on PROCOMES yesterday (April 20) and the reports of arrest “quotas” imposed on police officers […]

El Salvador’s State of Emergency: Opinion Piece from Al Jazeera News

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) El Salvador: A state of emergency indeed With a new state of emergency, any residual hint of civil liberties has been suspended in ‘the world’s coolest dictatorship’. Belen Fernandez Contributing editor at Jacobin Magazine. Published On 6 Apr 20226 Apr 2022 Read post on Al Jazeera News Here On Saturday, March 26, […]

Update on the state of emergency in El Salvador / Estado de excepción en El Salvador

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO)   The Salvadoran government headed by Nayib Bukele declared a state of emergency on March 27, 2022 after 87 murders took place throughout El Salvador. The situation has called into question the effectiveness of the famous Territorial Control Plan, whose phases have never been fully explained to the population. The president pressured […]

Monsignor Romero’s funeral

(ORIGINALMENTE PUBLICADO POR CARLOS DADA EN EL FARO)   On March 30, 1980, Palm Sunday, Romero made his last trip to the Cathedral. His body, in a gray coffin trimmed with silver, was carried in procession from the Basilica of the Sacred Heart by a dozen young priests and accompanied by bishops from across the […]

CONFRAS forecasts less cultivated area and less food for El Salvador this year

(PUBLICADO ORIGINALMENTE POR DIARIO CO-LATINO)   The Confederation of Federations of the Salvadoran Agrarian Reform (CONFRAS) considers that this year there will be a decrease in the national production of basic grains and vegetables, given the increased cost of inputs for agricultural production and little government support. They say that this, in turn, will generate […]

Mothers search en masse for their missing children

(ARTICULO DE FACTUM DISPONIBLE EN ESPAÑOL AQUÍ) An article written by Gerson Najera   Relatives and friends of victims of forced disappearance have gathered in a block to demand respect and an immediate response from the Government to the reports of disappearances. “I ask the president (Nayib Bukele) to be empathic. What if it was […]

About the clandestine graves in El Salvador

(LEA EL ORIGINAL EN ESPAÑOL AQUÍ)   This is a translation of an Op Ed written by José María Tojeira, former dean of the Central American University (UCA):   The great massacres almost always required clandestine graves. Many of them were discovered after the wars that provoked such killings. This is how the Nazis acted […]

Internal crisis in the Supreme Court

Fitch Ratings has downgraded El Salvador’s Long-Term Foreign Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to ‘CCC’. In Fitch’s view, weakening of institutions and concentration of power in the presidency have increased policy unpredictability, and the adoption of bitcoin as legal tender has added uncertainty about the potential for an IMF program that would unlock financing for […]