During a House Appropriations Committee hearing, Congresswoman Norma Torres (D-Calif.) questioned U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio about agreements between the United States and Salvadoran leader Nayib Bukele. The hearing, streamed in a video by Forbes Breaking...
The Santa Tecla First Instance Peace Court held the initial hearing this morning against Alejandro Antonio Henríquez Flores, lawyer for the El Bosque cooperative, and Elim Church pastor José Ángel Pérez Godínez, who were arrested after the demonstration near President...
UN experts* today urged the Government of El Salvador to ensure woman human rights defender Ruth López is granted all fundamental legal safeguards and due process guarantees while in detention. Ruth López is a human rights lawyer and the director of the Justice and...
Members of the Comité de Familiares de Presos y Presas Políticos (Cofappes) (Committee of Relatives of Political Prisoners, Cofappes) and the Alianza Nacional El Salvador en Paz (National Alliance El Salvador at Peace) on May 30 called for the release of the veterans...
As El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele marks his sixth anniversary in office, the country’s Catholic bishops have published a pastoral letter warning of the risk of turning the Central American nation into a “large international prison” and demanding an end to the...
Under the title “A voice crying out with hope in the wilderness,” the Conferencia Episcopal de El Salvador (CEDES) (Episcopal Conference of El Salvador) issued its most recent Pastoral Letter, urgently calling on Salvadoran society not to lose hope, to recover its...
