Official police documents cite a complaint received via text message that points to students from the Instituto Nacional Técnico Industrial (INTI). The text reads as follows: “Hello, I want to report these students from INTI who always come to demand student IDs...
Since March 2022, El Salvador has lived under a continuous state of emergency in which fundamental constitutional rights have been suspended as part of President Nayib Bukele’s so-called war on gangs. In that time, detentions have surged: Nearly 2 percent of the adult...
El Salvador ranks among the countries facing acute food stress according to the United Nations (UN), prompting community and social organizations to sound the alarm on the urgent need to rethink the development model and bolster domestic food production. On Monday,...
They spent four months incommunicado in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), the mega-prison built by Nayib Bukele to cage gang members in El Salvador. This Friday, they arrived in Venezuela following a three-way prisoner exchange involving Bukele himself, the...
El Salvador on Friday received ten U.S. citizens freed by the Nicolás Maduro regime, as part of a diplomatic operation coordinated between the Salvadoran government and the United States. According to the Presidential Press Secretariat on X (formerly Twitter), the...
The Salvadoran NGO Cristosal, which championed the migrants before it was forced into exile, stated that the release “does not erase the gravity of the human rights violations” perpetrated and called for an investigation. “This release is undoubtedly a step forward,...
