The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) advertises on its social networks 56 agromarkets and a wholesale hub as places where the public can obtain food at lower prices. The logistics and stockpiling behind that promise draw no less than $50 million from the...
The First Organized Crime Court ordered alternative measures to pre-trial detention for Montalvo, jailed since May of last year. His defense team had requested a review hearing in November, citing a chronic illness, but the court delayed the proceeding. On Monday,...
Seven months had to pass before Judge Three of San Salvador’s First Organized Crime Tribunal convened a special hearing and replaced pre-trial detention with alternative measures in favor of economist and former FMLN leader Atilio Montalvo, arrested in May 2024. After...
Teachers’ unions warned on Monday that the medicine shortage at the Instituto Salvadoreño de Bienestar Magisterial (Salvadoran Institute for Teachers’ Welfare, ISBM) has dragged on for roughly a year, jeopardizing the health of hundreds of educators and their...
José and Patricia, neighbours from San Salvador, boarded a plane for Spain in 2023 in search of work and professional training. He is a sociologist pursuing a master’s degree while tending bar in Madrid; she looks after the elderly. “We are doing fine—perhaps not as...
It is not the same to be an ordinary prisoner as to be a prisoner of conscience. A prisoner of conscience is an individual unjustly detained for peacefully exercising fundamental rights such as freedom of expression, religion, or assembly. Before someone can be...
