The international record

Every body with jurisdiction has filed its findings. The next country signs the deal anyway.

By 2026 every international body with jurisdiction or institutional standing has weighed in. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights, in Barrios Altos v. Peru (2001) and Almonacid Arellano v. Chile (2006), holds that amnesty laws shielding crimes against humanity are themselves void under the American Convention — doctrine binding on every state in the inter-American system, including El Salvador. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has, since 2022, issued precautionary measures and public communications on the régimen, citing arbitrary detention, deaths in custody, and the suspension of habeas corpus. The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has classified individual Salvadoran detentions as arbitrary under international law. The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, and the Special Rapporteur on Torture have filed parallel communications. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have published successive country reports across all three regimes. Peru's Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (2003), and Chile's Rettig (1991) and Valech (2004, 2011) commissions, have established in primary national documents the demographic shape of the violence and the chains of command behind it. The findings exist. They are searchable. They are not stopping the next country from signing the same deal.