Juan Alberto Ortiz—departmental secretary for La Unión in the Nuevas Ideas party and president of the Instituto Administrador de los Beneficios a Veteranos y Ex Combatientes (Institute for the Administration of Benefits to Veterans and Veterans, INABVE)—was taken into...
After three months in custody at La Esperanza Prison (Mariona) in San Salvador, auto-body painter Óscar Antonio Cruz died on Wednesday, 2 July. The forensic report lists the time of death as 9:00 a.m. and the cause as acute pulmonary edema. Cruz’s friends...
Three men who were found guilty of murdering four Dutch journalists in 1982 in El Salvador have been sentenced to 30 years in prison. The former high-ranking military officials were sentenced to up to 15 years in prison in June. In the written verdict, the court...
Despite President Nayib Bukele’s persistent hype, it’s a dangerous time in El Salvador. The significant democratic spaces carved out by the Chapultepec Peace Accords of 1992 continue to diminish, as Bukele’s “state of exception” becomes a seemingly permanent fixture....
The dictatorship’s narrative trumpets its supposed superiority over democracy as the finest form of government. As irrefutable proof it cites the suppression of the separation of powers and their concentration in the Executive, which, it insists, allowed it to...
In a rare account of the notorious prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration deported 261 Venezuelan and Salvadoran migrants in March, Kilmar Abrego García’s lawyers said in a court filing Wednesday that he and the others were severely beaten and forced to...
