Trump has been busy closing doors to asylum seekers, including LGBT people from Central America. Meanwhile, in the United States, the administration of Donald J. While this ruling represented a much needed first step toward accountability for anti-trans violence in El Salvador, hate crimes against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT ) people there and in neighboring Honduras and Guatemala have continued. It was the first time anyone had ever been convicted for killing a transgender person in El Salvador. The judge held that the evidence, including the vehicle’s GPS tracking, the location where Díaz was found, and Díaz’s autopsy report established the officers’ criminal responsibility. Prosecutors alleged that on January 31, 2019, the officers had forced her into the back of a pickup truck, beaten her, and thrown her from the moving vehicle. On July 27, 2020, a court in El Salvador convicted three police officers of killing Díaz.
She made her way to the United States in 2017 to seek asylum, but after four months in immigration detention, in November 2017, she was deported to El Salvador and to her eventual death. Camila Díaz Córdova, a 29-year-old transgender woman, tried for years to escape the violence that had characterized her life in El Salvador.
