The International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger (OIAD) awarded the 2026 Sir Henry Brooke Award to Ruth Eleonor López, a Salvadoran lawyer and human rights defender who has been detained since May 18, 2025. Cristosal, the human rights organization to which López...
“For many years we were contacted by people who made a living extorting. Now, as small business owners, we’ve really benefited from the security we have,” says Lilian Escobar, from her lubricants shop in the district of Ilobasco, in El Salvador....
Uziel de Jesús Gutiérrez Pineda died in the early hours of Tuesday, April 7, on Espíritu Santo Island, in Puerto El Triunfo, Usulután, after a long battle with kidney failure. He was 29 years old. His story, however, isn’t explained just by the illness, but also...
Legal Humanitarian Aid (SJH) and the Center for Exchange and Solidarity (CIS) confirmed the death of 28-year-old Uziel de Jesús Gutiérrez Pineda, originally from Isla Espíritu Santo, Usulután, due to kidney failure, a condition he had suffered from for years. The...
PBS FRONTLINE premiered “The Deal: Trump, Bukele & the Gangs of El Salvador” on April 7 at 10 p.m. ET. On its documentary page and video listing, PBS describes the film as an examination of Bukele’s deal with Trump to imprison U.S. deportees and...
U.S. government attorneys on Tuesday told a federal judge the Department of Homeland Security still intends to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia, despite a new agreement with Costa Rica to accept deportees who cannot legally be returned to their home countries....
