Geopolitics
The Cage and the Blueprint: How the Imprisonment of Ruth Lopez Exposes a Transnational Attack on Sovereignty and Dissent
Human rights lawyer Ruth Lopez has been imprisoned without trial in El Salvador for a year for opposing corruption and challenging a secret U.S.-Salvadoran deal to detain deportees. The jailing of an award-winning defender of democracy exposes a brutal crackdown on dissent, serving as a stark model for the erosion of rights that the U.S. now seeks to emulate.
