This Monday, May 18, marks one year since renowned activist and lawyer Ruth Eleonora López was sent to prison, the price she has had to pay to date for defying Nayib Bukele’s government. According to Cristosal, the human rights organization where she worked,...
BIOGRAPHY José Ángel Pérez is a pastor at the Misión Cristiana Elim branch in El Triunfo, Department of La Libertad. As ad honorem president of the El Bosque Cooperative, he accompanies more than 250 farming families in their struggle for land security. He spent 220...
The General Directorate of Migration reported that between January and March 2026, the country received 5,351 deported Salvadorans. This figure is 90.2% higher than the number recorded in 2025—nearly double—when 2,813 people were forcibly returned in the first...
The secretary general of the Union of Medical Workers of the Salvadoran Social Security Institute (SIMETRISSS), Dr. Rafael Aguirre, is facing a termination process from the institution for, he explained, spreading information about medication shortages. He claims he...
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York informed Judge Joan M. Azrack that the Government of El Salvador released four Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) leaders who are being sought for extradition to stand trial on terrorism charges. In the...
On May 9, on the eve of Mother’s Day, a group of women whose children remain detained under the state of exception gathered in front of the Metropolitan Cathedral of San Salvador to demand judicial independence and announce the creation of the “Mothers for...
