Paying for crimes they did not commit under the new regime in El Salvador

She was 24 when the door opened without explanation. “They came in and took him away… and to this day we know nothing,” says Idalia Esmeralda Mijango about the father of her son, detained in 2022. Since then, time has been measured in absence. He worked every day, in a community where —she says— there was never violence. “Many innocent people are paying for something they did not commit,” she says. Her request is not political: it is a plea. That someone listens. That someone returns him. That someone has, at least, some compassion.