Although the government had planned to make the first universal pension payment for older adults last March, it was two months behind schedule and only began issuing it in the first few days of June. This was confirmed to this outlet by various groups in contact with...
The approval of a Foreign Agents Law in El Salvador on May 22, along with the arrest of Salvadoran human rights activist Ruth López, has set off alarm bells about the possible—and now more overt—replication of the model used by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and...
The prosecutor criminally pursuing Ruth López, a human rights defender and anti-corruption lawyer, is Berty Manuel Acevedo, son of the chief of the Estado Mayor Presidencial (Presidential General Staff, EMP), Manuel Antonio Acevedo López. The Presidential General...
In early May, the farming cooperative of El Bosque in Santa Tecla, one of El Salvador’s largest cities, received an eviction notice; a new battle in a decades-old fight for land. In response, community members organised a peaceful sit-in near hardline President Nayib...
The Twelfth Peace Court ordered Ruth Eleonora López to six months of pre-trial detention for the crime of illicit enrichment. According to her defense team, the judge determined that the community ties presented were not sufficient to prove she would not flee the...
The decree for the Foreign Agents Law, which establishes a 30% tax on transactions and donations received by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), will take effect this Saturday, June 7, 2025, eight days after its publication in the Official Gazette. Beginning on...
