The deaths of four individuals in recent clashes with officers of the police (PNC) warrant public attention and an institutional response. In every instance, the official narrative claims the officers acted in self-defense while responding to domestic violence calls....
Journalist Carlos Dada has been forced to run El Faro from exile — El Salvador’s preeminent investigative newspaper and one of the world’s digital journalism pioneers when he co-founded it with fellow reporters in 1998. His experience of harassment at the...
In a series of interviews with Spanish media outlets, Salvadoran Vice President Félix Ulloa stated that his government has never negotiated or struck deals with criminal organizations. In saying this, he was lying. He said that the decree declaring the state of...
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, expressed concern over the “elevated” number of deaths in custody in El Salvador and over “reports of hundreds of prison deaths” in Ecuador. In his address to the 61st session...
Prison guards in El Salvador confirmed to LA PRENSA GRÁFICA the complaints their sector has raised regarding the food provided to them during their shifts inside the country’s jails, citing both the poor quality of what they receive and alleged acts of...
The tax-rate cut approved by the Legislative Assembly on whisky, gin, and liquors could dent revenue from the levy on the sale of alcoholic beverages — and, with it, the share the government transfers from that collection to the Solidarity Fund for Health (Fosalud)....
