Owing to their obsolescence and scant depth, these usurpers prove doubly finite. Spanish dictionaries define a usurper as one who seizes—typically through violence—a right or property that legitimately belongs to another. This definition aptly identifies those who...
Beyond the dismantling of the gangs—a development with significant caveats that I personally regard as a “cruel achievement”—the Salvadoran reality is best defined as a “multidimensional crisis.” This crisis is marked by the deepening and worsening of myriad economic,...
The institutions comprising the expanded security cabinet convened a press conference last Monday to present the 2025 security report. At the event, officials leading the Ministry of Security, the Attorney General’s Office, and the Armed Forces unveiled their...
On December 17, 2025, a local court released lawyer Alejandro Henríquez and pastor José Ángel Pérez. Seven months earlier, the two activists had been arbitrarily detained under El Salvador’s state of emergency and charged with public disorder and aggressive...
El Salvador’s Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman (PDDH), under the direction of Raquel Caballero de Guevara, has turned its back on individuals, collectives, and diverse sectors of the population seeking protection amid grave human rights violations stemming...
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele declared in an interview published this Monday (Dec. 29, 2025) with Spanish YouTuber David Cánovas Martínez, known as ‘The Grefg,’ that he would like to continue governing the Central American nation for...
