(ORIGINAL EN ESPAÑOL AQUI) His name was Luis Iván Mejía Bonilla, he was 30 years old, and he was the father of a girl. His relatives, some of them living in the USA, were told by (salvadoran) authorities that they should go to the Santa Teresa Hospital. However, upon arrival, they were told the […]
Violence has increased once again in El Salvador. On Friday, 22 homicides were reported on Friday and president Bukele ordered lockdown of prisons on Twitter. Since Friday, “the murder of no less than 40 people can be confirmed”, reported La Prensa Gráfica. FACTUM published the following analysis of the situation: This Friday, April 24, […]
Last Friday, president Nayib Bukele established a sanitary cordon in La Libertad. People were not allowed to leave their houses not even to purchase food. This was criticized by several people: The lawyer and former Minister of Security, Francisco Bertrand Galindo, wrote that if the siege in La Libertad is true, it is “illegal, […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) The members of the Guajoyo security committee who were arrested on Saturday, April 11, are now free. The young men were on their shifts at the entrance of the community, controlling access and doing sanitation work when they were captured by the police. All group members work voluntarily rotating during part […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Today the Legislative Assembly must analyze whether the restriction of rights during the pandemic is extended, as requested by President Nayib Bukele. Last Sunday they decided to extend it just for four days. The journalist Fernando Romero (whom the president previously excluded from an event) explains the reforms that various groups […]
Last night ARENA, PDC and PCN voted in favor of a new amnesty law, “The Reconciliation Law”. One of the main criticism to this law is “that it allows judges to significantly commute sentences for reasons of health or age, or because alleged perpetrators collaborate“. President Bukele has said he plans to veto it. Nevertheless, […]
Jose Apolonio Tobar has been elected as Human Rights Attorney of El Salvador. 57 congresspeople voted for the proposal of ARENA, FMLN and PDC, even when president Bukele asked them not to. The method used for his candidacy has been questioned. He also faces accusations of crimes such as ideological falsehood, prevarication, influence peddling […]
Fabian Salvioli, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees recently visited El Salvador and asked to remove the name of Col. Jose Domingo Monterrosa from the Infantry Brigade in the department of San Miguel. According to the UN Truth Commision, Monterrosa was the commander of the Atlacatl Batallion that […]
Social Movement Organizations File Lawsuit Against Unconstitutional Appointments of Ex-Generals On February 21, a group of Salvadoran human rights organizations submittted a lawsuit alleging that the recent appointments of two former generals to the posts of Minister of Justice and Public Safety, and CEO of the National Police are unconsitutional. During the rally and press […]
On the recent USESSC trip to Honduras we received a request from our friends at COFADEH, The Committee of Family Members of the Detained and Disappeared of Honduras, for an urgent action in support their colleague, Hector Soto, a leader in the Honduran resistance and director of the Civil Society Group in Honduras. Take […]