A Salvadoran police officer has confessed to participating in at least 97 murders between 2015 and 2020 as a member of a death squad dedicated to executing alleged gang members, according to the Salvadoran newspaper El Faro. The victims include minors, business...
There was a time in the early to mid-2010s when a common question at Latin American think tank conferences was, “Why is Nicaragua so safe?” At the time, Nicaragua’s neighbors—the so-called Northern Triangle states of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador—were among the...
In 1995, when the Heinrich Böll Foundation (Fundación Heinrich Böll) opened its office in El Salvador, Central America had only just emerged from the darkest years of its recent history. The civil wars had ended, but the wounds remained open: fragmented societies,...
The Heinrich Böll Foundation announced on Monday the relocation of its headquarters from El Salvador to Guatemala, explaining that the decision stems from “the increasingly restrictive context for freedom of thought in El Salvador.” “This decision...
In the general cemetery of Apastepeque, San Vicente, lies the grave of Manuel de Jesús Cortez Mira, who served as director of the Centro Educativo Joaquín Rodezno (Joaquín Rodezno Educational Center) and the Centro Escolar República de Chile (Republic of Chile...
“Dear Humberto, we are certain we will meet and embrace again in the house of the Lord. You will live eternally in our hearts, and we will honor your memory as the good son, husband, father, brother, grandson, nephew, and best friend you were,” reads the plaque on the...
