El Salvador, a small country of just over six million people, has just marked four years under the state of exception. It’s not a dictatorship, at least not in form, because people still vote. But it looks a lot like one: constitutional guarantees are suspended,...
Walter Vladimir Sandoval, 25, was arrested on March 30, 2022, just five days after the start of the state of exception imposed by El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele. Four days later, on April 3, he was already dead: his body showed fractures and visible...
An Italian Salesian priest is accused of sexual abuse committed against minors between 1979 and 1985 at the Instituto Técnico Ricaldone in San Salvador, according to a report by the Spanish newspaper El País, as part of an international investigation into clergy abuse...
On Wednesday, the Second Sentencing Court of San Miguel convicted former Presidential Commissioner for Strategic Projects Cristian Herson Flores Sandoval and his assistant, José Ángel Quintanilla Rosales, of improper bribery after confirming they solicited more than...
Sabino Ramos is a union organizer and cultural promoter from Panchimalco. He is known for his involvement in community and cultural activities. His family describes him as someone who liked to get involved in preserving traditions such as the “Los...
Attorney Guillermo García, of the Movement for the Defense of the Working Class (MDCT), reported that they were subjected to police harassment when they went to the Usulután prison to find Panchimalco cultural organizer Sabino Ramos Cruz. The defense team went to the...
