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Bring back Kilmar Armando Abrego García

Dan La Botz — 2025-04-23T07:30:53Z

A growing movement of civil rights organizations, Latino community groups, labor unions, and legislators is demanding the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego García, who President Donald Trump had deported to a prison in El Salvador in violation of the U.S. Constitution, and they have pushed this case through the federal courts to the U.S. Supreme Court. Abrego García's case has at the same time become the center of the struggle between Trump and the courts, a contest that has now become a constitutional crisis, raising the question of whether the United States will remain a liberal democracy or become an authoritarian dictatorship.

- IVP603 - April 2025 / United States (USA), El Salvador

Who's who in Latin America's upheaval

Claudio Katz — 2019-11-25T04:08:02Z

Latin America is experiencing an abrupt change generated by enormous confrontations between the dispossessed and the privileged. This confrontation includes both revolts by the people and reactions by the oppressors.

- IV538 - November 2019 / Brazil, Haiti, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Cuba, Latin America, Ecuador, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Bolivia, El Salvador

No one is illegal - Solidarity with the Migrant Caravans

PRT, Mexico — 2018-11-18T08:18:29Z

Thousands of migrants from Central America have made politically and socially visible the structural violence and systematic violation of their human rights that they experience on a daily basis, without governments attending to the causes or the basic necessities of survival, through their organisation into caravans. These are some of the reasons that forced them to flee their countries, with only what they carry on their backs and suffering the hardships of a long journey towards an uncertain destination. They flee from capitalist criminal, institutional, state and patriarchal violence. They advance in defiance of the threats of the police and military who guard the different borders, as if at war with the wretched of the earth.

- IV526 - November 2018 / United States (USA), Guatemala, Mexico, Migration, Honduras, El Salvador

FMLN Confronts Challenge from the Right

David Grosser — 2018-09-17T11:30:56Z

In 2009, twenty years after the negotiated end to a brutal civil war, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), former guerrillas turned left political party, finally won the presidency of El Salvador, defeating ARENA, the far rightists who had made the country a showcase of neoliberal “reforms”.

- IV524 - September 2018 / El Salvador

The unspeakable cruelty of El Salvador's abortion laws

2018-05-12T16:31:05Z

Around the world today we are seeing two opposite tendencies in abortion law reform.

- IV520 - May 2018 / Women, El Salvador

USAID in El Salvador: The Politics of Prevention

Hilary Godfriend — 2017-08-11T03:21:30Z

The U.S. agency for International Development (USAID) frames its work in El Salvador in the sterile, technocratic language of neoliberalism. The Agency is devoted to fostering “prosperity, security and good governance” in the small Central American nation. Notions of non-partisanship and apolitical, post-ideological action are key to this discourse.

- IV511 - August 2017 / United States (USA), El Salvador

Feminists in El Salvador Continue Fight for Justice for Women Imprisoned for Obstetrical Complications

Kathy Bougher — 2015-03-19T17:37:51Z

Guadalupe, pregnant at the age of 18 in El Salvador as the result of a rape, suffered obstetrical complications before she gave birth in the home where she worked as a domestic employee to a fetus that did not survive. After hours of hemorrhaging, her employer took her to the public hospital. There, medical personnel accused her of abortion, illegal under all circumstances in El Salvador, and turned her over to police. Prosecutors upgraded the charges to aggravated homicide, and the judge sent her to prison for thirty years.

- IV482 - March 2015 / Women, El Salvador