El Salvador president announces 'foreign agents' proposal, fueling concerns of crackdown on dissent

The Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele, launched a harsh attack on human rights organizations on Tuesday, ordering 30% of their income to be withheld. Bukele’s decision, similar to that taken by his Nicaraguan counterpart, Daniel Ortega, in 2020 to suffocate NGOs, occurred one day after military police first repressed a peasant protest at the gates of his residence. The violent intervention of the uniforms set a historic precedent in El Salvador…

May 14, 2025 – El Salvador – Agencies. The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, announced that he would send to the Legislative Assembly a bill imposing a 30% tax on donations received by non-governmental organizations. This initiative arose after a nightly protest led by inhabitants of a rural community who demonstrated near the president’s residence to prevent an eviction ordered by a court. The Assembly is controlled by the ruling New Idea…

Bukele Intensifies Repression and Restricts NGOs with Controversial Foreign Agents Law in El Salvador - teleSUR English

President Nayib Bukele pushes a law imposing a 30% tax on NGO donations amid escalating human rights violations and repression against peasant communities and social defenders in El Salvador. Related: Matt Gaetz Documentary Exposes Inhumane Conditions for Venezuelan Detainees in El Salvador’s CECOT Megaprison President Nayib Bukele has announced a Foreign Agents Law project that imposes a 30% tax on donations received by NGOs, in a context marke…

El Salvador president announces 'foreign agents' proposal, fueling concerns of crackdown on dissent

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele says that he’s pushing forward a “foreign agents” bill that critics say would deal another blow to civil society and independent journalistic organizations as the popular president tightens his control three years into a crackdown against gangs.

The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, is on war footing with NGOs: for him, they are foreign agents who interfere in the politics of other countries. After there were protests supported by NGOs in the course of a country dispute, Bukele announced that NGOs should be asked to pay for their concerns themselves. He wants to impose a tax of more than 30 percent on the donations of NGOs. At NGOs, however, the announcement has naturally already …

Journalists Exposed Bukele’s Gang Ties. Then They Had to Flee El Salvador to Avoid Arrest

We speak with a Salvadoran journalist who fled El Salvador along with others from the acclaimed news outlet El Faro after Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele threatened to arrest them for exposing how Bukele had made secret deals with Salvadoran gangs. Bukele has run the country under a so-called state of exception since 2022, detaining nearly 80,000 people accused of being in gangs, largely without access to due process. “We don’t know when we wil