Sulma Santos’s last contact with her brother José Osmín was on April 9, a call from the immigration detention center in New York State where he had been held for a couple of weeks. “Sulma, I think they are going to move me,” he said. “Let us talk quickly, because we...
El Salvador’s judicial system has acquitted, for the second time, the five anti-mining environmental leaders from the Santa Marta community, along with three other people, who were accused of a crime that occurred in 1989, in the context of the civil war that ravaged...
During the National Solidarity Gathering with El Salvador, held in the city of Frankfurt, Germany, social development organizations, humanitarian groups, environmental advocates, and the Lutheran Church in that country voiced their concern and condemnation over the...
Shortages at the Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social (Salvadoran Social Security Institute, ISSS) are reaching critical levels, leaving healthcare staff without the basic supplies needed to treat beneficiaries, according to a complaint filed Friday by the...
On September 27, Cristosal published a letter addressed to Ruth Eleonora López, head of the organization’s Anti-Corruption and Justice Unit, who has been detained since May 18. In the letter, the organization emphasizes that López “is a woman who has shaped the recent...
The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, did not participate in the United Nations General Assembly this year, marking the first time in his six years of government that he has not attended this international forum. His regional counterparts, such as Bernardo...
