San SalvadorThe human rights ombudswoman skipped her own hearing.
Rights groups say El Salvador’s detainees held since March 2022 lost their state defender.
Ombudswoman Raquel Caballero de Guevara missed the 26 October hearing in Panama, and no government representative attended either.
Its last public statement dates to February 2021, and the commission awaits a reply.
How each outlet framed it
- Focos leans critical
- names the ombudswoman's absence from the CIDH hearing and her silence as complicity in the state of exception
Sources: Focos