Legal Humanitarian Aid (SJH) reported this week that 560 inmates have died since the implementation of the state of exception in El Salvador; of those, 319 cases were documented between January 2024 and August 2026, a figure that exceeds the 220 homicides reported by...
Between February 2024 and April 2026, a business group of friends and associates of the Bukele family bought 632 hectares (more than 900 manzanas) in three areas of environmental interest in El Salvador, in a series of acquisitions that began months after Nayib...
On August 30, 2023, José Roger Urquilla Rivas, 37, landed in El Salvador after being deported from Texas, United States. And that same day, he was arrested in his own country, despite having no criminal or police record. His journey to the United States was an escape...
The Salvadoran community living and working in the United States under Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is awaiting a final decision on El Salvador’s designation for this humanitarian program, which has been the target of the Donald Trump administration’s...
Annual reports from twelve executive branch ministries show an increase in the combined amount of direct purchases, a mechanism that allows public acquisitions without requiring competition among suppliers. According to data reported by twelve of the 16 ministries,...
In June of this year, Nayib Bukele’s government celebrated the International Labour Organization (ILO) excluding El Salvador from the “shortlist.” The list is an annual public scrutiny mechanism in which the Committee on the Application of Standards...
