The month of June 2025 will go down in El Salvador’s history as the largest exodus of journalists and civil society members since the armed conflict that devastated the country from 1979 to 1992. This time, Salvadorans are not fleeing civil war, but the regime...
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Tuesday the designation of the Barrio 18 gang as a transnational terrorist organization, accusing it of threatening U.S. national security. With this, the gang joins the same category as its historic rival,...
Pedro Cruz, the defense attorney for the Santa Marta environmentalists, declared that “justice has triumphed” upon learning of the ruling from the Tribunal de Sentencia de San Vicente (San Vicente Trial Court), which acquitted the defendants of the crimes of murder...
Claudia Ortiz (San Salvador, 38) has become the most visible political figure of the opposition to Nayib Bukele in El Salvador. Her political capital is far from matching the president’s propaganda machine and overwhelming popularity, but today she is the only leader...
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) announced on Tuesday that it has issued precautionary measures in favor of lawyers Ruth López and Enrique Anaya, critics of President Nayib Bukele’s government who are detained in El Salvador, because they...
Analyst and human rights defender Celia Medrano stressed that the Salvadoran state must comply with the precautionary measures ordered by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) for Ruth López and Enrique Anaya, warning that the state of exception is...
