The commission stated that dismissing the Peace Accords means failing to objectively honor the pain and suffering of the Salvadoran people, who clamored for an end to the civil war. To consider this historic milestone a farce is to repudiate all those who lived...
Guatemala knows such models all too well—or at least episodes that eerily echo them. The country has endured governments led by families, politicians, or dictators who looted the state, amassed fortunes, and eliminated critics and opponents through imprisonment,...
For nearly two months, residents of the San Francisco Angulo community in the Tecoluca district—part of the San Vicente Sur municipality—have guarded the access road to Lomas de Angulo. It was there, in October of last year, that a company began clearing and grading...
On Thursday, January 15, the Movimiento Todos Somos El Espino (We Are All El Espino Movement) filed a criminal complaint with the Fiscalía General de la República (Attorney General’s Office) regarding the alleged commission of environmental crimes during the...
Latin American progressive leaders are increasingly being backed into a corner on organized crime by pressure from the Trump administration and from their own voters, who point to the results from El Salvador president’s war on gangs. The hunger for a more...
El Salvador has marked one year since the Government of Nayib Bukele resurrected metal mining. In that time, no mines have opened, but environmentalists are already being criminalized, persecuted, and driven into exile. Those who remain in the country keep a low...
