US Edition“We Know What’s Coming: Exile or Prison” – El Faro’s Óscar Martínez on Surviving Bukele’s Crackdown - Committee to Protect Journalists
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“We know what’s coming: exile or prison” – El Faro’s Óscar Martínez on surviving Bukele’s crackdown - Committee to Protect Journalists
Journalists at El Faro knew the risks when they published a series of interviews with gang members alleging long-standing ties between Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and criminal groups. They didn’t know how quickly the crackdown would escalate. Within days of publication last month, sources close to El Salvador’s attorney general’s office warned that arrest warrants were imminent for seven of the outlet’s journalists. The purported charges –…
A well-known investigative portal has reported on a secret pact of the president with criminal gangs, whose authoritarian tendencies are becoming more and more obvious.
During the act of accountability for his first year of the second term, President Nayib Bukele held international treaties and human rights regulations accountable for the release of a gang member who, after serving a two-year sentence in a juvenile correctional facility, murdered a former corporal of the National Civil Police in Tacuba. Bukele explained that the young man, arrested at the beginning of the emergency regime in 2022, had no tattoo…
The young man was released when El Salvador was in the process of reforming his judicial system. Currently, Bukele sentenced the criminals: “We are not going to release them anymore or ever.” EL SALVADOR.- During his annual speech, President Nayib Bukele reaffirmed the continuity of the emergency regime as a key measure to guarantee public safety, in response to the criticisms of national and international organizations that question the suspens…
Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz stated that President Nayib Bukele "deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, not the criticism of the Economist," in reference to a recent publication by the British media about the situation in El Salvador. Gaetz pointed out that the article is in contradiction by unsubstantiatedly accusing of alleged agreements between the government and gangs, while also acknowledging the high levels of violence that for years affecte…
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