The world’s “coolest dictator” is imprisoning innocents at rates not seen since the country’s dictatorship and civil war. Solidarity activists are fighting back.
El Salvador’s Dangerous Democratic Backslide
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El Salvador civil war
People Who Care About Democracy Don’t Plot Coups Abroad
Do we think people who armed death squads and started wars really want to “bring democracy” to Venezuela?
Central America Needs a Marshall Plan
U.S. policies helped create the refugee crisis in Central America. Better ones can help resolve it.
‘Being Tortured Has Been the Best Experience of My Life’
Call it blowback: How one Salvadoran union organizer survived torture by U.S.-backed security forces and took his activism north of the border.
Child Migrants Are Refugees the U.S. Helped Create
Central American children fleeing poverty and gang violence are refugees—often from situations U.S. policies have helped to create—and they should be treated as such.
A Precarious Victory in El Salvador
Washington is threatening to withhold development aid unless El Salvador adopts economic policies that Salvadorans just voted against.