Eleonora Alfaro, the mother of Ruth López, an anti-corruption lawyer and human rights defender in El Salvador who was detained Sunday night, on Monday held President Nayib Bukele responsible for the arrest and demanded her release. “I demand Ruth’s freedom...
José Simeón Cañas Central American University (UCA), true to its commitment to reality, academic excellence, respect for human rights, and democracy, expresses its concern over the arrest of Ruth Eleonora López, a lawyer, a professor at this university, a human rights...
A Republican proposal to tax remittances would deliver an economic blow to some of the US’s poorest neighbors, including a close ally of President Donald Trump. The bill, presented to the US House of Representatives last week, would levy a 5% tax on remittances for...
On Sunday, May 18, Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, definitively shed the mask he has governed with since his 2019 election to show his true face: that of a dictator with enough power to imprison anyone who dares to denounce his corruption or criticize his...
Salvadoran writer Horacio Castellanos Moya was born in Honduras in 1957, but he arrived in El Salvador, his father’s country, when he was very young, and it was there that he grew up and put down roots. But for more than two decades, one of the founders of the...
In Corinto, the announcement of school reconstructions and the relocation of classes to private homes to continue the educational process has, far from bringing joy or excitement for new infrastructure, caused concern and uncertainty that the two recently closed...
