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“El Gobierno es misógino, es evidente"

1 week ago | pikaramagazine.com | Danielle Mackey

La abogada y defensora de los derechos humanos salvadoreña ha sido detenida por el Gobierno de Bukele. Ella es una de las protagonistas del reportaje 'Las caras de la democracia en El Salvador', publicado en el anuario 12, de septiembre de 2024. Ruth López, el año pasadoEl pasado 18 de mayo, Ruth López Alfaro, abogada salvadoreña y defensora de los derechos humanos, fue detenida en mitad de la noche por el Gobierno de Nayib Bukele.
The Terrorism Suspect Trump Sent Back to Bukele

1 month ago | rsn.org | Danielle Mackey

An MS-13 leader knew key details of a secret deal that his gang allegedly made with the Salvadoran President—then the White House put him on a flight to El Salvador. By now, the images of Donald Trump’s March 15th flights to El Salvador are all too familiar: shackled Venezuelans being off-loaded from U.S. planes at the country’s Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, and cowering as their heads are forcibly shaved by other prisoners.
The Terrorism Suspect Trump Sent Back to Bukele

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Danielle Mackey

By now, the images of Donald Trump’s March 15th flights to El Salvador are all too familiar: shackled Venezuelans being off-loaded from U.S. planes at the country’s Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, and cowering as their heads are forcibly shaved by other prisoners.
Del luto electoral al arraigo de la solidaridad

Nov 19, 2024 | pikaramagazine.com | Danielle Mackey

La victoria de Donald Trump deja una sensación de luto pero cimienta la esperanza en una vida más comunal. “Nuestra liberación colectiva no será producto de la urna”, publica la revista de política y cultura negra estadounidense 'Hammer & Hope'. Vivir en los países de América últimamente ha conllevado un tipo de duelo extraño.
How the Biden Administration Failed El Salvador — The Dial

Oct 22, 2024 | thedial.world | Danielle Mackey

On May 4, 2021, Vice President Kamala Harris stood on a podium at the Washington Conference on the Americas and took aim at the government of El Salvador, headed by President Nayib Bukele. Just three days before the conference, he — along with the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador, controlled by his Nuevas Ideas party — had illegally fired the attorney general and all five magistrates in the constitutional chamber of the Salvadoran Supreme Court. Harris decried the move.
The true cost of El Salvador’s new gold rush - podcast

May 10, 2024 | theguardian.com | Danielle Mackey |Bethzabe Palma

Seven years ago, El Salvador banned all mining for metals to protect its water supply. But now the government seems to be making moves to reverse the ban – and environmental activists are in the firing line. By Danielle Mackey How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know
¿Nayib Bukele regresará la minería?

May 7, 2024 | gatopardo.com | Fernanda Jiménez |Danielle Mackey

Tiempo de lectura: 23 minutosEl celular de Vidalina Morales sonó a mediados de la tarde. Era el 17 de mayo de 2023. Ella estaba en el estado rural de Cabañas, El Salvador. Escuchó la voz de su hijo Manuel, de 33 años, pero sonaba extraña. “Aquí me tienen en el puesto policial”, dijo apresuradamente. Lo habían arrestado mientras jugaba fútbol con amigos en un campo cercano. Morales intentó respirar.
Nayib Bukele’s Authoritarian Appeal

Apr 5, 2024 | newyorker.com | Danielle Mackey

On the afternoon of February 4th, as Salvadorans were voting in Presidential and legislative elections, a fifty-seven-year-old writer named Carlos Bucio Borja walked into a polling place near his home in the capital and began to read the constitution aloud.
The true cost of El Salvador’s new gold rush

Apr 3, 2024 | theguardian.com | Danielle Mackey

On the afternoon of 17 May 2023, in the rural El Salvador state of Cabañas, Vidalina Morales’s mobile phone rang. It was her 33-year-old son, Manuel, but his voice sounded strange. “They have me here in the police station,” he said. He’d been arrested while playing football with friends on a local field. Morales tried to breathe. This had long been her worst fear: that her loved ones would be targeted on account of her work.
The Bloody Fight Over Mining in El Salvador — The Dial

Mar 12, 2024 | thedial.world | Danielle Mackey

On the afternoon of May 17, 2023, in the rural state of Cabañas, El Salvador, Vidalina Morales' cell phone rang. It was her 33-year old son, Manuel, but his voice sounded strange. “They have me here in the police station,” he said, rushed. He'd been arrested while playing soccer with friends on a local field. Morales tried to breathe. This had long been her worst fear: that her loved ones would be targeted on account of her work.