The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, enjoys showing his mega-prison to leaders from other countries, who visit in search of inspiration. Christened the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) and inaugurated in January 2023, the facility has space for 40,000 gang...
The president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), José Luis Caballero, believes that the situation in El Salvador regarding fundamental guarantees “requires special attention” in the face of the repressive escalation against...
Christians must obey the civil authorities and conduct themselves as responsible citizens. This is what the apostle Paul taught in the well-known admonition of his letter to the Romans: “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no...
“They won’t silence me. I want a public trial!” shouted prominent human rights lawyer Ruth Eleonora López, a Bible clutched in her hands, as she stood outside a courtroom earlier this month in San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador. López is accused of illegal...
Authorities have disclosed a single arrest after President Bukele, on Saturday, 21 June 2025, directed security forces to establish a military and police cordon in a sector of the Ilopango district, east of San Salvador. The Minister of Public Security, Gustavo...
Hacienda (Ministry of Finance) took in $67 million less in taxes than programmed for May, according to the latest tax-income report on its Fiscal Transparency Portal. The spending plan called for $721.4 million, but the month closed at just $654.2 million. It is the...
