The renowned humanitarian organization Cristosal, which on Thursday announced in Guatemala City that it is suspending its operations because of an ‘escalating wave of repression,’ vowed to continue advocating for the physical safety of attorney Ruth López, a member of...
On August 29, 2023, brothers José Manuel and Juan Luis Sosa Cordón—then 42 and 31 years old, respectively—appeared before a Salvadoran attorney in San Salvador to incorporate Avalon Constructores, S.A. de C.V., with a share capital of US$2,000. José Manuel became the...
A total of 3,814 students were forced to attend classes in makeshift classrooms in 2024—some fashioned from sheet metal or held outdoors. Parents had harbored hopes that upon returning to their old schools, these facilities would boast a transformed appearance, as...
Routinely accused of human rights violations itself, this time it was Venezuela that raised its voice to denounce abuses against hundreds of its citizens in El Salvador, where they had been deported from the United States under an agreement to confine them in a...
The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) recent disclosure about the Salvadoran bitcoin purchases that weren’t raises flags about two key issues: the genuine commitment that El Salvador has to bitcoin and the inadequate communications policy of the Salvadoran...
In his work “Death in Wars and Conflicts in the 20th Century,” Professor Milton Leitenberg tallied those killings—of civilians, soldiers, and those deliberately driven to starve or imprisoned—at 231 million. The 75,000 deaths from El Salvador’s civil...
