Of the people who have died in state custody under the state of exception, 46.4% were 40 years old or younger, according to a report by Legal Humanitarian Aid (SJH). That is 240 people in that age range, 125 of whom were under 30. Legal Humanitarian Aid also reported...
Sugey Amaya spends most of her nights outside a converted movie theater that is now a holding station for people passing in or out of El Salvador’s crowded prison system. While her mother watches her children, she waits for inmates to be released from the prison...
The Attorney General’s Office revealed that former President Elías Antonio Saca and his wife, Ana Ligia Mixco Sol de Saca, have returned to the Salvadoran state roughly $5,000 of the more than $4 million they were ordered to pay for illicit enrichment. In a...
Health sector organizations expressed concern this Wednesday, April 15, over the rollout of the second phase of the DoctorSV app, announced on Tuesday, April 14, to expand care for patients with chronic illnesses through artificial intelligence (AI). According to...
Residents of the urban area of San Pedro Nonualco, in La Paz Centro, report that they have had problems with their drinking water service for over two months, which they say is limited to a few hours in the early morning by the National Administration of Aqueducts and...
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday submitted a statement to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, a bipartisan body of the U.S. House of Representatives, calling attention to the systematic erosion of press freedom in El Salvador under the...
