This article by Jeff Abbott is published by Progressive. Here is an excerpt:

El Salvador’s congress has approved a thirty-day state of emergency that suspends key constitutional rights. President Nayib Bukele requested the declaration after the gang-related killings of more than sixty people in one day. 

Human rights advocates fear the measure will lead to abuses and contribute to a growing authoritarianism in the Central American country. 

“This State of Emergency is very worrying,” Leonor Arteaga, the executive director of the Due Process of Law Foundation, based in Washington, D.C., tells The Progressive. “[This is] very arbitrary, highly militarized, and very dangerous.”

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