El Salvador’s arrest of an anticorruption lawyer from a well-known human rights organization last month is the latest example of how special powers given to President Nayib Bukele to battle the country’s gangs are being applied to a host of unrelated...
The National Civil Police (PNC) reported the femicide of a 14-year-old girl committed this Monday in the Colonia 10 de Octubre, in the Soyapango district, San Salvador Este. The femicide was committed with a bladed weapon, according to the PNC. The institution stated...
A soldier assigned to the República de Panamá school in San Salvador’s Atlacat neighborhood, currently undergoing reconstruction, obstructed a photojournalist covering a story there in response to complaints from parents whose children have been moved to a...
On the night of his graduation from Loganville High School, Josue Trejo Lopez was not onstage wearing the red graduation gown he had purchased. Instead, he streamed the event from San Salvador, El Salvador, watching the ceremony unfold on his iPhone 15’s small screen....
The Trump administration is attempting to dismiss criminal charges against MS-13 leader Vladimir Antonio Arevalo-Chavez with the intention of deporting him back to El Salvador. Arevalo-Chavez’s attorneys allege that Trump is doing a favor for President Nayib Bukele,...
On May 30, Frizgeralth de Jesús Cornejo Pulgar was scheduled for a hearing in a United States immigration court. But Cornejo Pulgar—an asylum seeker from Venezuela fleeing potential persecution from paramilitary groups aligned with the government of Nicolás Maduro—was...
