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Weekly Report - 21 August 2025 (WR-25-33)
EL SALVADOR: New education minister raises militarisation concerns
President Nayib Bukele’s recent appointment of the captain and doctor Karla Edith Trigueros as El Salvador’s new education minister has raised concerns of a militarisation of education. It comes amid a war on gangs that has already significantly increased the power of security forces through a state of exception in place since late March 2022 which continues to draw major human rights concerns. Such fears were hardly assuaged when, the day after Trigueros’ appointment, the 60-member unicameral legislature voted to extend pretrial detentions of those arrested under the state of exception by a further two years.
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