Tim Muth

Yes, his current term in office violates the existing constitution, but the supreme court judges he put in place, gave him a pass.

Asamblea Legislativa habilitará reelección presidencial indefinida y extiende mandato a 6 años - La Prensa Gráfica Con la iniciativa, el actual período presidencial finalizará anticipadamente, para iniciar un nuevo orden electoral en 2027.

In El Salvador, Bukele's political party has introduced a constitutional amendment to allow him to be re-elected without term limits. It will pass. Before today constitution limited president to one 5 year term, without chance of re-election. www.laprensagrafica.com/elsalvador/A...

A group of global civil society organizations have placed the US on a watchlist for urgent concern over the health of its civic society, alongside Turkey, Serbia, El Salvador, Indonesia and Kenya.

U.S. ambassador in San Salvador, William Duncan, is ending his term as head of mission in El Salvador, according to a spokesperson of the Embassy. Mr. Duncan will retire from the Foreign Service after a 33-year career. “He expressed the government and the Salvadoran people his deep gratitude”

The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been t...

Hot off the @propublica.org presses: We're publishing bios of all 238 of the Venezuelan men who Trump sent to CECOT in an interactive database: projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...

Mass Deportation: Analyzing the Trump Administration's Attacks on Immigrants, Democracy, and America - American Immigration Council The first six months of President Trump’s return to office have marked the most extreme changes to the immigration system in modern U.S. history.

It turns out that evaluating the admin at 6 months is exactly the right time. All the news stories are starting to feel like so many raindrops. & it's impossible to see the pattern of the weather pattern by looking at the rain.
Here's your radar. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/report/mass-...

Venezuela releases jailed Americans in deal that frees migrants deported to El Salvador by US Venezuela has released 10 jailed U.S. citizens and permanent residents in exchange for getting home scores of migrants deported by the United States to El Salvador months ago under the Trump administr...

The US-Venezuela-El Salvador prisoner swap stinks to high heaven. It makes no sense on the face of it. Why would Maduro trade US hostages for Venezuelans we are told are hardened gangsters? Probably because a number of them are dissidents. And other reasons we don’t yet know…🧵

El Salvador and US negotiate prisoner swap with Venezuela Some 250 Venezuelans deported from the US to El Salvador were exchanged for 10 Americans held by Caracas.

Who does Trump send next to El Salvador? The US citizens held in Venezuela and the Venezuelans held in CECOT were all pawns of rulers who care little for the rule of law.

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Exclusive: El Salvador rights group flees Bukele's deepening crackdown El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's drive to consolidate his grip on power and crack down on critics and humanitarian organizations has forced a leading human rights organization to suspend operations in the country and go into exile, the group told Reuters.

The exodus from El Salvador of human rights groups and journalists.

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22 flights landed in El Salvador in June carrying those deported from the US, with some days towards the end of the month seeing two flights per day according to @tomcartwright.bsky.social. This was 29% more flights than May and 89% more flights than prior 6 month average. This will only increase.

Facing a crackdown, Central American immigrants are sending more money home The Trump administration is set to implement a tax on those payments through the president’s landmark legislation that he recently signed into law.

More ways Trump policies remove assets from local economies.

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Remittances surge in May Family remittances sent to El Salvador set a monthly record in May of almost $900 million. The flow of dollars into El Salvador from those ...

Salvadorans sending money out of the US in the face of Trump's massive deportation plans and prior to the tax in the budget bill Trump signed today.

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I obtained this from a community member minutes after arriving on scene following a raid at the Cypress Park Home Depot this morning. they detained day laborers.

IMF Executive Board Concludes 2025 Article IV consultation and First Review Under the Extended Fund Facility for El Salvador The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded El Salvador’s 2025 Article IV consultation and completed the first review of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement. Comple...

Here's the most recent statement from the Int'l Monetary Fund regarding El Salvador's finances: www.imf.org/en/News/Arti...

YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News Trrump Asked About Temporary Protected Status For El Salvador Following Administration's Comments

Asked about ongoing status of TPS for El Salvador, Trump pivots to talking about how impressed he is with the country's prisons. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Ez...

Your weekend reading about events in El Salvador. www.elsalvadorperspectives.com/2025/06/news...

this is my local ice cream guy! he’s great! everyone loves him! fuck these fucking assholes!

free enrique

Decretan detención provisional para el abogado constitucionalista Enrique Anaya - La Prensa Gráfica El juez mandó a instrucción el proceso en contra del abogado constitucionalista y le impulso detención provisional. Los defensores expusieron una "situación crítica" de su estado de salud.

Constitutional lawyer Enrique Anaya faced initial hearing today and was denied pretrial release. The judge has put this case of a Bukele critic entirely under seal. www.laprensagrafica.com/elsalvador/D...

DISASTROUS. This means they will send people to horrific situations with no due process — in direct violation of promises the Solicitor General made to the Court in previous cases.

This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.

NEW: Data shows that as of June 15, fully 30% of all people arrested by ICE and sent to detention had NO CRIMINAL RECORD.

11,763 people in detention as of last Sunday had no criminal record and were arrested inside the country by ICE -- an increase of 4,000 people in two weeks!

Salvadoran public continues to tell pollsters they approve of Bukele Two opinion polls released in June show president Nayib Bukele continuing to receive high approval ratings from large swaths of the Salvador...

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Trump versus Salvadorans in the US Donald Trump has put in place his campaign promise of massive deportation of undocumented persons in the US.  Those expulsions included 1600...

The latest at El Salvador Perspectives:
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Bukele, emboldened by Trump, is arresting prominent critics While the Trump administration deepens ties with El Salvador, its millennial president is cracking down on dissenting lawyers, activists and journalists.

"This time, the United States isn’t condemning the repression — it’s deepening ties with its author."
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Bukele Ushers In a New Era of Political Prisoners in El Salvador Between 2021 and 2023, there were 11 political prisoners in El Salvador, according to U.S. government records. A committee of relatives of persecuted and imprisoned Salvadorans registered 28 people as...

Exile or prison? For many who speak out against the Bukele regime, that is the question of the moment. But the imprisonment of political enemies of Bukele did not just start this year, writes @periodistagl.bsky.social

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“Delay, Interfere, Undermine” President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter, but new reporting based on interviews and documents reveals how senior Salvadoran officials have impeded a U.S....

Huge story from ProPublica about how Bukele regime was suspected of funneling US aid funds to MS-13, and how Trump's deals with Bukele today are undercutting the prosecution of top MS-13 bosses who know the details. www.propublica.org/article/buke...

“Prison Bars Will Not Silence the Truth” In El Salvador, the movement of families of people deprived of their liberty is sustaining a struggle for a community stripped of its humanity and reimagining justice in the process.

"In El Salvador, the families of [persons deprived of liberty] are unequally burdened with the task of looking after their incarcerated loved ones without being able to see or even speak to them."

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Searching for Devils at CECOT Exclusive photos inside the notorious prison in El Salvador

Philip Holsinger appears to have access no one else does. Including the chance to see how the Venezuelans are living in CECOT. Disturbing photo essay.

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Reports that Salvadoran government planned to arrest journalists of El Faro if they attempted to re-enter the country.

Bukele arrests another of his critics Nayib Bukele has just had another of his critics arrested.  The government of El Salvador Saturday detained prominent attorney Enrique Anaya...

Enrique Anaya was a constitutional lawyer who pulled no punches in showing how Nayib Bukele was running rough shod over the country's laws. Now he is the latest critical voice to end up arrested in El Salvador.

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El Salvador: Bukele critic arrested for money laundering – DW – 06/08/2025 The detained constitutional lawyer Enrique Anaya has recently described El Salvador President Nayib Bukele as a "dictator."

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