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Cristosal @cristosal.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

How Authoritarians Use Spectacle and “Tamed” Bodies In Field Notes, @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social explains how staged imagery and disciplined bodies become tools of power in the authoritarian playbook. ▶️ Watch now. #FieldNotes #Authoritarianism

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Noah Bullock @noahbullock.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

A law enforcement agency that cannot show its face to the public does not serve the public and likely does not have the support of the public.

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Noah Bullock @noahbullock.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Gunboat diplomacy is back! Worth remembering it didn’t work then and after a century of coersion and self-defeating power projection it was replaced by the Good Neighbor Policy. “Peace in the Americas must rest on mutual confidence and cooperation, not on force.” — FDR, 1936

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Noah Bullock @noahbullock.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The United States has not been a party to torture on this scale since the war in terror. Torture does not make anyone safer and can never be justified as part of public policy. Read out report here bit.ly/4nUjd4d

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US/El Salvador: Torture of Venezuelan Deportees

The Venezuelan nationals the US government sent to El Salvador in March and April were tortured and subjected to other abuses, including sexual violence.

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Noah Bullock @noahbullock.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

“He was dirty,” Mr. Musto said of the Salvadoran president. “He was corrupt. And now he’s sitting next to the president in the Oval Office and he’s got prime access to the leader of the free world.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...

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Trump Vowed to Dismantle MS-13. His Deal With Bukele Threatens That Effort.

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Cristosal @cristosal.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

📢 #CristosalStatement | The Constitutional Chamber admits a habeas corpus petition in favor of Ruth López but legitimizes rights violations and the discretionary use of the state of exception. Learn more. 👇

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Cristosal @cristosal.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

🌈 This Pride Month, we stand with the LGBTIQ+ community. In times of rising threats, visibility and solidarity matter more than ever. Everyone deserves dignity, love, and equal rights. #PrideMonth #LGBTIQ #HumanRights

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Cristosal @cristosal.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

🚨 #PressRelease | UN experts call for protection for Ruth López, lawyer and human rights defender. They urge the government of El Salvador to ensure her safety and guarantee due process while she remains in detention. 🔗 short-link.me/-jje

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Test of link 'El Salvador: Expertas de la ONU exigen protección para Ruth López tras desaparición forzada – Oficina del Alto Comisionado para los Derechos Humanos- América Central | , , United States ...

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Noah Bullock @noahbullock.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Punitive populism that offers security at the expense of democracy and human rights is a false bargain serves as a pretext to expand autocratic power, exploit public office and diplomacy for personal gain, and institutionalize cruelty in public policy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Trump’s lawlessness is emboldening El Salvador’s brutal regime | Noah Bullock and Amrit Singh

The detention of a leading human rights lawyer is part of a wave of repression sweeping the country under Nayib Bukele

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Cristosal @cristosal.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

📣 “The people of the US and El Salvador deserve better.” Noah Bullock and Amrit Singh expose how Trump & Bukele push punitive populism—offering security while undermining democracy & human rights. 📄 Read the full article @theguardian.com tinyurl.com/yxvzshwe #HaveSomeDecency #FreedomForRuthLópez

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Trump’s lawlessness is emboldening El Salvador’s brutal regime | Noah Bullock and Amrit Singh

The detention of a leading human rights lawyer is part of a wave of repression sweeping the country under Nayib Bukele

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Cristosal @cristosal.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

One week after Ruth López’s arrest, we reflect on what it means for human rights in El Salvador and the region. 🗣️ Featuring @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social 🎙️ In conversation with @noahbullock.bsky.social 🗓️ Thursday, May 29 🕑 2 PM ET / 12 PM Central America 📍 Live on Zoom | shorturl.at/8WbW6

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Noah Bullock @noahbullock.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Mr. Trump and Mr. Bukele are “two presidents who see themselves with extraordinary powers to defy the courts, to decide who is innocent and who’s guilty, to determine what individuals and groups should be protected by the law – and which ones shouldn’t.” www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics...

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They’ve watched democracies fail. They see it happening under Trump.

As Donald Trump fights the courts over Kilmar Abrego Garcia, targets law firms, and tests the rule of law, democracy experts warn they’ve seen this before.

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Noah Bullock @noahbullock.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

@cristosal.bsky.social has been documenting cases and developing habeas corpus claims with families of Venezuelan deported to CECOT. None of the families have had communication with their relatives since they were rendered to El Salvador. These are enforced disappearances.

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Noah Bullock @noahbullock.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

There is now an irreconcilable difference between how the State Department and the Justice Department view the Bukele regime. State says that Bukele is one of their key allies in combating gangs, while Justice's alleges that Bukele partnered with them. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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The Terrorism Suspect Trump Sent Back to Bukele

An MS-13 leader knew key details of a secret deal that his gang allegedly made with the Salvadoran President—then the White House put him on a flight to El Salvador.

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American Friction @americanfric.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

El Salvador's Nayib Bukele paid a visit to the White House yesterday – a man accused of abusing human rights. So why has Trump become such a great friend of his? @nikkimcr.bsky.social and @jacobjarvis.bsky.social spoke to @noahbullock.bsky.social to find out 👉 linktr.ee/americanfric...

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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

This episode might be my favortie @americanfric.bsky.social interview so far. Bukele will be at the WH today, we spoke to @noahbullock.bsky.social about how his regime has cratered human rights in El Salvador -- and what Trump is learning from it. linktr.ee/americanfric...

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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Ahead of Bukele’s meeting with Trump tomorrow, the work being done by organizations like Cristosal has never been more important ⬇️⬇️

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Noah Bullock @noahbullock.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Thank you @TVietor08 and @CrookedMedia for a great conversation about autocracy in El Salvador. A president that claims that human rights and independent courts are obstacles for security is more concerned with accumulating power than national security. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4zi...

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Trump’s Tariffs Just Triggered a Global Economic Meltdown

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Noah Bullock @noahbullock.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I spoke with @rollingstone.com about how in El Salvador, the seductive promise of security in exchange for rights has led to tyranny, and it could in the US too. Follow our human rights work in Central America at @cristosal.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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The 'Judicial Black Hole' of El Salvador's Prisons Is a Warning for Americans

Donald Trump is cementing a partnership with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, whose assault on civil rights is being mirrored in the U.S.

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Noah Bullock @noahbullock.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Institutions that protect people against abuses of power are the strength of democracies. Brutality is the tool of the autocrat and the proof of its weakness as a form of government. A democracy doesnot demonstrate strength outsourcing its brutality to an autocrat.

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Noah Bullock @noahbullock.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

"To be a witness is to be a voice for the voiceless against the powers of injustice." 45 years since his martyrdom. Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador Saint of the Americas

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Noah Bullock @noahbullock.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Brutality is the autocrat’s method, control is his objective. “Show them they are not in control.” time.com/7269604/el-s...

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What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced

Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

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Allison Meakem @ameakem.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

"The American people must be clear-eyed about the prison system to which their government is sending deported migrants—which, in the worst-case scenario, could one day hold U.S. citizens, too," @noahbullock.bsky.social writes in this chilling piece about El Salvador.

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The Horror Inside the Salvadoran Prisons Where Trump Is Sending Migrants

Human rights organizations have gathered credible evidence of systematic corruption, torture, and killings.

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Noah Bullock @noahbullock.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

So is the underlying strategic objective behind the tariffs on Canada to pressure them to become the 51st state? Or did I miss something?

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 06/01/2025

A list of the proposed Trump appointees, coming "from Florida, from Fox News and Fox Business, square-jawed men and women with big hair and collagen lips" www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Eliot Weinberger · Incoming! They Came from Fox News

They vow to cut two trillion dollars from the federal budget – five times the combined annual salaries of all federal...

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 05/01/2025

This is the best description of DOGE - what it is likely to be (an oligarchic project) and what it is unlikely to be (an actual government department) that I have yet read donmoynihan.substack.com/p/fake-jobs-...

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Fake Jobs and Fake Facts

By Misrepresenting Constitutional Law, Muskawamy Prove Brandolini's Law

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