Nearing Six Years in Power, Bukele Escalates Political Arrests and Tax Harassment

In recent days, in a growing wave of police repression and arrests, the Bukele regime revived a bill to tax donations to civil society groups, deployed the Military Police to disperse demonstrators from his personal residence, and ordered detentions including Ruth López, legal director for human rights organization Cristosal, a leading evidence-gatherer of state crimes under the state of exception.