Interview by Daniel Finn El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has become a poster boy of the international far right and a key ally of the Trump administration, offering his country’s prison system as a MAGA labor camp. We spoke to journalist Hilary Goodfriend about...
Health workers at the General Hospital of the Salvadoran Social Security Institute (ISSS) have reported, on condition of anonymity, a medical supply crisis along with threats from internal authorities aimed at preventing the situation from being made public. According...
The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) notified El Salvador’s police (PNC) on April 15 that it had removed the red notice against former Salvadoran President Alfredo Cristiani and temporarily blocked the data of former Christian Democratic...
The human rights crisis has worsened and taken on new dimensions by unexpectedly drawing in the first lady. Bukele’s reaction was swift. He insists on conflating rights and justice with terrorism and insecurity, an unacceptable argument, except to his faithful....
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) gave El Salvador a low compliance rating regarding the 23 recommendations the body published in 2024 in the context of the state of exception and human rights violations by the Salvadoran state. This was the...
Environmentalists denounce the criminalization of resource defenders amid the advance of projects.They warn that sugarcane monoculture is harming biodiversity and land use.Residents of San Francisco Angulo say a landfill threatens water resources, public health, and...
