SPECIAL SERIES | The impossible home By ten in the morning, the heat is already stifling. The air barely circulates inside the room. The bed fills almost the entire space. To one side is a small wardrobe; to the other, a table holds an old television. Next to the...
In San Isidro, Cabañas, the reopening of metallic mining is reviving old tensions and wounds that had yet to heal. Communities like El Tren report attempted evictions, the felling of more than 15,000 trees, and the risk of losing their water sources. Added to this is...
The Committee of Relatives of Political Prisoners (COFAPPES) denounced to the national and international community that the First Organized Crime Court is allegedly engaging in actions that jeopardize the due process of the members of the El Salvador in Peace Alliance...
With its legislative majority from Nuevas Ideas, the Legislative Assembly on May 1, 2021, removed the justices of the Constitutional Chamber and the attorney general, replacing them with ruling-party loyalists. Months later, it forced the retirement of judges over 60...
The executive director of CRISTOSAL, Noah Bullock, stated that the report recently released by Amnesty International on the grave human rights violations in El Salvador under the state of exception confirms once again that crimes against humanity may be taking place....
When her six-year-old granddaughter, Keila Aguilar, asks her for the fourth time to dance with her to the rhythm of her YouTube idol, 51-year-old María Lidia Lemus sighs deeply, summons the last of the day’s energy, and agrees. After a few steps in her home in...
