This Thursday, the UCA sports complex brimmed with students, faculty, priests, and people from different communities to bid farewell to “Padre Chema.” The funeral Mass was presided over by Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas, while Father Rodolfo Cardenal delivered a...
The global slide in democratic standards also affects Latin America, although many countries maintain a stable basic level, stated the Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA). In the 2025 Global State of Democracy Report: “Democracy...
On September 5 of this year, 21-year-old Natalia Raquel Bernal Gómez left her home and was last seen at the Polideportivo de Huizúcar in La Libertad, but she did not return alive. The Policía Nacional Civil (PNC) reported her murder five days later after finding her...
Santa Tecla’s Second Investigating Court extended the investigation phase against Alejandro Henríquez, an attorney and member of the Foro del Agua (Water Forum), and José Ángel Pérez, a pastor and community leader, by three months. As a result, this stage is now...
The United States agreed to pay the Government of El Salvador $4.7 million to accept up to 300 deported migrants, most of whom were Venezuelan. To accept them, the Trump Administration stipulated, among other conditions, that the funds not be used to offer legal...
The terms of a previously secret grant agreement between the United States and El Salvador facilitating the Trump-Vance administration’s practice of disappearing people indefinitely from U.S. territory into El Salvador’s notorious Centro de Confinamiento del...
