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...
RSF called on Spanish authorities to protect photojournalist Diego Rosales, who may be extradited to El Salvador in February 2026. Rosales was released last week after his arrest in Seville, Spain, on an Interpol Red Notice while pursuing asylum. RSF’s concern...
The Bukele model is as alluring as it is inimitable. Autocrats admire it and envy it. They yearn to replicate it in their own countries. Yet imitation proves far more arduous than it appears. It demands more than mere political will: the dismantling of democratic...
The Legislative Assembly will increase its 2026 communications budget compared to the amount assigned for that purpose in 2025, according to the final version of the General National Budget for the current year, released this Monday by the Ministerio de Hacienda...
El Salvador endures its most intense period of police oversight in decades, yet burdens an entire generation raised amid patrols, prisons, and security pledges—bereft of the employment or education necessary to envision a different future. Under the state of...
