In 2025, the State Intelligence Agency (OIE) spent $63 million on its operations, a figure 42 times greater than the original budget approved by the Legislative Assembly, which was just $1.5 million, according to the “demonstrative statement of budget execution...
San Salvador (EFE) — The deaths of at least five more people bring the number of fatalities in various prisons in El Salvador to approximately 517 following their detentions under the state of exception, in effect since March 2022 to combat gangs, according to a...
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) urged the states of the Americas to implement comprehensive security policies that move beyond repressive approaches and focus on protecting the fundamental rights of victims affected by organized crime. In a...
Lawmaker Guevara: “Now they come with the new rehash: ‘33,000 detainees were not profiled as gang members.’ And from there they push their usual narrative: that they are innocent, that @nayibbukele’s government arrests people for no reason,...
Nayib Bukele is a dictator. He rules El Salvador with an iron fist, but his apparent effectiveness stems from shadowy pacts with the very gangs he now holds in prison. Like other populists, his career began on the left, with the Farabundo Martí National Liberation...
As part of International Workers’ Day commemorations, a range of social, labor, and community organizations have called for a mobilization on May 1 in El Salvador, in a context marked by allegations of labor, human, and environmental rights violations. They...
