Omar García Harfuch, head of the Secretaría de Seguridad y Protección Ciudadana (Security and Citizen Protection Ministry), stated that a light aircraft intercepted in the municipality of Tecomán, Colima, with 428 kilograms of cocaine on board had departed from El...
Much of Salvadoran journalism is in exile. I considered attaching qualifiers—critical, independent, free—but they seemed superfluous. A large share of the journalism that has done what must be done under a dictatorship—question it, obstruct it—now lives abroad. More...
In a split decision, a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel said Tuesday that a San Francisco trial judge was too hasty in dismissing a lawsuit by a group of El Salvador-based journalists against the Israeli maker of the Pegasus spyware that was surreptitiously...
My joy at seeing the Senate’s budget bill trim the levy on remittances to one percent evaporated almost instantly, for the United States is doubling down on an anti-immigrant agenda more draconian than any in its history. Its spearhead is the infamous, inhumane...
For the past several months, the Trump administration has insisted in court that it has no control over the nearly 140 Venezuelan immigrants it deported to a prison in El Salvador this spring under the powers of a rarely used wartime statute. Both in filings and at...
In the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s unlawful transfer of hundreds of migrants to a torture prison in El Salvador, the administration claimed that it had no legal authority to bring them back to the United States. Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele claimed, in...
