El Salvador Rights Group Says Forced Out By Bukele 'Repression'

Fuente: International Business Times

Cristosal lawyer and rights activist Ruth Lopez arrives at court in El Salvador following her arrest AFP A leading rights group investigating corruption in El Salvador said Thursday it had been forced into exile due to "escalating repression" by President Nayib Bukele's administration. The Cristosal group is a vocal critic of Bukele's controversial anti-crime policies and also provides assistance to families of migrants deported by the United States and imprisoned in El Salvador. It denounced "harassment," "espionage" and "defamation" by what it called a "dictatorship" being established in El Salvador under Bukele, an ally of US President Donald Trump.