Sentencing Judge Juan Antonio Durán stated that the arrest of five public transportation business owners is intended to sow fear, as well as serve as a smokescreen for a series of events tarnishing the image of the unconstitutional President Nayib Bukele, such as the...
International human rights organizations on Friday filed a lawsuit with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights asking that the commission order El Salvador’s government to release Venezuelans deported from the United States and held in a maximum-security...
Their loved ones were picked up by U.S. immigration authorities, deported to El Salvador and then jailed in a notorious maximum-security prison. Now, more than a dozen families are suing the Salvadoran government, accusing it of illegally keeping their sons, brothers,...
Ricardo Prada Vásquez, a Venezuelan man whose family says he was “disappeared” and who wasn’t included on a previously leaked government list of people sent to a notorious mega prison in El Salvador, was included on a private airline’s flight manifest to the country,...
The scene outside Laola Surf Camp was Instagram-perfect. A towering palm tree leaned over the black-sand beach. Surfers paddled out to catch breaking waves. Families on Easter break sat under colorful umbrellas. If you walked along the water to town, you’d find new...
Recently, El Faro published a series of interviews with two former gang leaders. Everything they said escalated in levels of horror, but of all that was recounted, this, said by Liro, is what filled me with a pain — not someone else’s, but collective: “It was...
