News emerging from El Salvador, ruled by Nayib Bukele, raises weighty questions. On one hand, prominent non-governmental organizations condemn human rights violations, the dismantling of democratic institutions, a steadily shrinking public sphere, and the curtailment...
For Carlos and his wife, Natalia, 2023 was bittersweet: the joy of welcoming their first daughter collided with the anguish of not knowing how to provide for her. Carlos’s concern was stark: he had lost his job, and his calculations showed they could not stretch their...
It is a sweltering Sunday in Cuisnahuat, in the department of Sonsonate, in northwestern El Salvador. Though the sky hangs heavy with clouds and rain looms imminent, the heat clings relentlessly, thick and unyielding. Seated in a chair at her home, Verónica Barrera, a...
It is noon on the island. Daysi Campos, not yet fifty, pedals home from the mangrove on her bicycle. In her backpack she carries the curil clams she managed to dig up. “It is not much; I only stay out there a short while, I cannot keep working long,” she says one July...
On June 24, 2025, experts from eleven special procedures of the United Nations (UN) released a letter warning of the human rights violations suffered by Venezuelan nationals deported from the United States to El Salvador. Among the signatories was Ana Lorena...
The 425th inmate to die behind bars has a name: Humberto Adonay Escobar Mónico, 38. His family has filed a homicide complaint with the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) and with the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman (PDDH), demanding an investigation into possible...
