Earlier this month, the State Department released its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, which provide nation-by-nation human rights analysis about the previous year. Such reports often reveal political compromises — but, distinct from past years, the department under Secretary of State Marco Rubio has dramatically distorted the human rights records of abusive governments with whom the U.S. has vested interests.

This includes especially El Salvador, about whom the State Department is, frankly, lying to the international community.

I serve as an expert witness on country conditions in El Salvador for U.S. immigration courts when people are applying for asylum or protection under the Convention Against Torture. To do so, I swear under oath that I am telling the truth, both in my written reports and orally when called to testify.

This oath is not unlike the oath the American diplomats who put together these country reports take. Their work is meant to be apolitical and nonpartisan.

The alliance between President Trump and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has been very much........

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