Tim Muth
@timmuth.bsky.social
Civil rights lawyer who has written for 21 years about El Salvador at ElSalvadorPerspectives.com.
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Tim Muth
@timmuth.bsky.social
· Feb 14
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El Salvador joins Trump's Board of Peace.
January 28, 2026 at 10:44 PM
El Salvador joins Trump's Board of Peace.
Immigration arrests of Salvadorans in the US increased by more than 100% in 2025, while the number apprehended crossing the southern US border declined by more than 90%. These and other stats in today's post. www.elsalvadorperspectives.com/2026/01/immi...
Immigration arrests of Salvadorans in US up sharply in 2025
Data from the US and Salvadoran governments show the impact which the mass deportation regime and anti-migrant rhetoric of Donald Trump is h...
www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Immigration arrests of Salvadorans in the US increased by more than 100% in 2025, while the number apprehended crossing the southern US border declined by more than 90%. These and other stats in today's post. www.elsalvadorperspectives.com/2026/01/immi...
Call me skeptical.
US politicians praise Bukele's 'miracle' at 1st Salvadoran National Prayer Breakfast www.ncronline.org/news/us-poli...
US politicians praise Bukele's 'miracle' at 1st Salvadoran National Prayer Breakfast www.ncronline.org/news/us-poli...
US politicians praise Bukele's 'miracle' at 1st Salvadoran National Prayer Breakfast
Held as El Salvador experiences repression that President Bukele defends as needed to stop gang violence, the prayer breakfast was said to be organized by the Próspera Foundation, linked to right-wing...
www.ncronline.org
January 27, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Call me skeptical.
US politicians praise Bukele's 'miracle' at 1st Salvadoran National Prayer Breakfast www.ncronline.org/news/us-poli...
US politicians praise Bukele's 'miracle' at 1st Salvadoran National Prayer Breakfast www.ncronline.org/news/us-poli...
Reposted by Tim Muth
We have to see the logic of the killings as well as the killings themselves. The horror is a truth in itself. But it is also a sign of a political logic, one known from the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century.
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snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...
Lies and Lawlessness
The Camps, the Executions, and the Future
snyder.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 7:26 PM
We have to see the logic of the killings as well as the killings themselves. The horror is a truth in itself. But it is also a sign of a political logic, one known from the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century.
snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...
snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...
Norman Quijano, former president of El Salvador's National Assembly and 2014 presidential candidate from the right wing ARENA party was deported from US today to El Salvador where he faces a 13 year prison sentence for dealing with gangs and election fraud. www.laprensagrafica.com/elsalvador/n...
Norman Quijano fue deportado desde Estados Unidos y enfrentará condena en El Salvador - La Prensa Gráfica
Fiscalía notificó la recepción de Norman Quijano la tarde de este 26 de enero de 2026. Gobierno de El Salvador agradeció a Estados Unidos por “la colaboración”.
www.laprensagrafica.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Norman Quijano, former president of El Salvador's National Assembly and 2014 presidential candidate from the right wing ARENA party was deported from US today to El Salvador where he faces a 13 year prison sentence for dealing with gangs and election fraud. www.laprensagrafica.com/elsalvador/n...
A small step forward recently in a Salvadoran court hearing case of the 1981 El Mozote massacre. At this point, it is not clear any of the elderly generals and colonels will be alive when a judgment is finally handed down.
www.elsalvadorperspectives.com/2026/01/can-...
www.elsalvadorperspectives.com/2026/01/can-...
Can El Salvador produce a judgment against impunity in the El Mozote massacre case?
There is possible movement towards resolution of the case of the 1981 El Mozote Massacre. A judge has ordered the case into its final phas...
www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:07 PM
A small step forward recently in a Salvadoran court hearing case of the 1981 El Mozote massacre. At this point, it is not clear any of the elderly generals and colonels will be alive when a judgment is finally handed down.
www.elsalvadorperspectives.com/2026/01/can-...
www.elsalvadorperspectives.com/2026/01/can-...
His career started with an infusion of Venezuelan petro dollars, today Nayib Bukele aligns himself with Donald Trump against Maduro and surrounds himself with advisers with links to the Venezuelan opposition.
www.elsalvadorperspectives.com/2026/01/how-...
www.elsalvadorperspectives.com/2026/01/how-...
How Venezuela and Venezuelans have been a thread throughout Nayib Bukele's political career
The military incursion by the United State on January 3, to arrest Venezuela's dictator-president Nicolas Maduro and his wife, sent ripples ...
www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
January 17, 2026 at 8:56 PM
His career started with an infusion of Venezuelan petro dollars, today Nayib Bukele aligns himself with Donald Trump against Maduro and surrounds himself with advisers with links to the Venezuelan opposition.
www.elsalvadorperspectives.com/2026/01/how-...
www.elsalvadorperspectives.com/2026/01/how-...
Reposted by Tim Muth
Let's put these 2 headlines from this afternoon together.
They “finish off” suspected cocaine traffickers hanging helplessly off boats in the open ocean.
But an _actual_ cocaine trafficker who just happens to be a conservative political elite gets a pardon.
They “finish off” suspected cocaine traffickers hanging helplessly off boats in the open ocean.
But an _actual_ cocaine trafficker who just happens to be a conservative political elite gets a pardon.
November 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Let's put these 2 headlines from this afternoon together.
They “finish off” suspected cocaine traffickers hanging helplessly off boats in the open ocean.
But an _actual_ cocaine trafficker who just happens to be a conservative political elite gets a pardon.
They “finish off” suspected cocaine traffickers hanging helplessly off boats in the open ocean.
But an _actual_ cocaine trafficker who just happens to be a conservative political elite gets a pardon.
I started writing El Salvador Perspectives 21 years ago today. A lot has changed in the country, for better and for worse.
November 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I started writing El Salvador Perspectives 21 years ago today. A lot has changed in the country, for better and for worse.
36 years after the massacre of six Jesuit priests and their female coworker and her daughter, the Jesuits of the UCA continue to be a voice in El Salvador for social justice and human rights.
www.elsalvadorperspectives.com/2025/11/jesu...
www.elsalvadorperspectives.com/2025/11/jesu...
Jesuits of the UCA still have their voice
Sunday, November 16, marked the 36th anniversary of the Jesuit massacre at the University of Central America José Simeón Cañas in El Salvad...
www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
36 years after the massacre of six Jesuit priests and their female coworker and her daughter, the Jesuits of the UCA continue to be a voice in El Salvador for social justice and human rights.
www.elsalvadorperspectives.com/2025/11/jesu...
www.elsalvadorperspectives.com/2025/11/jesu...
More reporting of the stories from those who survived Bukele's prisons.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
More reporting of the stories from those who survived Bukele's prisons.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
An "anti-woke" curriculum in new schools in El Salvador being built by Bukele. Salvadoran public schools trail others in Latin America, and Bukele has a school-building and technology approach to changing that. www.elsalvadorperspectives.com/2025/11/buke...
www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:38 AM
An "anti-woke" curriculum in new schools in El Salvador being built by Bukele. Salvadoran public schools trail others in Latin America, and Bukele has a school-building and technology approach to changing that. www.elsalvadorperspectives.com/2025/11/buke...
El Salvador offers the US military landing zones in addition to prison cell space.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...
U.S. Sends Attack Aircraft to El Salvador Amid Regional Troop Buildup
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
El Salvador offers the US military landing zones in addition to prison cell space.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...
Human rights defenders continue imprisoned in El Salvador with court rejecting pretrial release.
November 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Human rights defenders continue imprisoned in El Salvador with court rejecting pretrial release.
The latest from El Salvador Perspectives.
www.elsalvadorperspectives.com/2025/10/wher...
www.elsalvadorperspectives.com/2025/10/wher...
Where Trump and Bukele intersect
The March 15, 2025, US deportation flights, which brought hundreds of Venezuelans and a few dozen Salvadorans to El Salvador's CECOT prison,...
www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The latest from El Salvador Perspectives.
www.elsalvadorperspectives.com/2025/10/wher...
www.elsalvadorperspectives.com/2025/10/wher...
Reposted by Tim Muth
Four months ago, Yessenia Ruano put her home in Wisconsin up for rent, packed a few bags and left for her native El Salvador. Now, she is among immigrant women who say ICE is wrongfully detaining and deporting domestic violence or human trafficking victims. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
She Self-Deported. Now She and Other Crime Survivors Are Suing ICE.
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Four months ago, Yessenia Ruano put her home in Wisconsin up for rent, packed a few bags and left for her native El Salvador. Now, she is among immigrant women who say ICE is wrongfully detaining and deporting domestic violence or human trafficking victims. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
"Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. "
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. "
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
El Salvador’s Minister of Education has sent out an edict prohibiting the use of “inclusive language” in the country’s schools. www.laprensagrafica.com/elsalvador/M...
Ministerio de Educación prohíbe "lenguaje inclusivo" en las escuelas públicas de El Salvador - La Prensa Gráfica
La ministra de Educación, la capitana Karla Trigueros, dijo que palabras como “amigue” y “compañere” no serán admitidas.
www.laprensagrafica.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
El Salvador’s Minister of Education has sent out an edict prohibiting the use of “inclusive language” in the country’s schools. www.laprensagrafica.com/elsalvador/M...
Reposted by Tim Muth
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
October 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
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Too much or too little water
Several news topics from El Salvador at the end of September involve water. Major Water Crisis in the Capital A significant water crisis occ...
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October 2, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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This is a long-running story from El Salvador, where miscarriages and obstetric emergencies land women in prison for years, charged with homicide. It is a cautionary tale of where abortion bans can lead.
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From Pregnancy to Murder Charge: Living Under a Total Abortion Ban
Podcast Episode · Central America in Minutes · 09/28/2025 · 50m
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October 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
This is a long-running story from El Salvador, where miscarriages and obstetric emergencies land women in prison for years, charged with homicide. It is a cautionary tale of where abortion bans can lead.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
Journalist from El Salvador, Mario Guevara, writes from an ICE detention facility, about the ongoing violations of his human rights and dignity since his arrest in June while covering protest activity. bittersoutherner.com/journalist-m...
Journalist Mario Guevara Speaks - Letter from ICE DETENTION FACILITY — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
The only journalist detained by ICE on US soil, sends a letter to The Bitter Southerner.
bittersoutherner.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Journalist from El Salvador, Mario Guevara, writes from an ICE detention facility, about the ongoing violations of his human rights and dignity since his arrest in June while covering protest activity. bittersoutherner.com/journalist-m...
Reposted by Tim Muth
Mario Guevara has been detained by ICE for more than 100 days in retaliation for his reporting — even though a judge ordered his release on bond.
An immigration court just ruled Mario could be deported at any moment. ICE must free him now.
An immigration court just ruled Mario could be deported at any moment. ICE must free him now.
Free Mario Guevara
ICE detained journalist Mario Guevara for over 100 days for his reporting, despite orders that he be released on bond. Now, an immigration board has issued a final removal order - and he could be deported at any minute.
action.aclu.org
September 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Mario Guevara has been detained by ICE for more than 100 days in retaliation for his reporting — even though a judge ordered his release on bond.
An immigration court just ruled Mario could be deported at any moment. ICE must free him now.
An immigration court just ruled Mario could be deported at any moment. ICE must free him now.
Reposted by Tim Muth
Hundreds gathered at Central American University over a four-day wake to commemorate the life of Father Chema Tojeira. He was buried alongside Ignacio Ellacuría and their other Jesuit companions assassinated by the Salvadoran Army in 1989. #efPhoto beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...
The Final Pilgrimage of Chema Tojeira
Hundreds gathered at Central American University over a four-day wake to commemorate the life of Father Chema Tojeira, a prominent figure in El Salvador for his decadeslong fight against impunity sinc...
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September 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Hundreds gathered at Central American University over a four-day wake to commemorate the life of Father Chema Tojeira. He was buried alongside Ignacio Ellacuría and their other Jesuit companions assassinated by the Salvadoran Army in 1989. #efPhoto beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...