José Alfredo Vega’s parents said they were able to identify his body only because of a childhood scar. Otherwise, the corpse was swollen beyond recognition. “He was OK when he left,” said his father, Miguel Ángel Vega, recalling the night nearly three years ago when...
As they addressed reporters inside the Oval Office in mid-April, President Trump and his Salvadoran counterpart appeared to be operating in lock step. The United States had just deported more than 200 migrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador, and President...
UN human rights experts* today expressed deep concern at the apparently unlawful deportations of over 250 Venezuelan and Salvadoran men – allegedly involved with gangs – from the United States to El Salvador. “In many cases, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 seems to have...
Once again, as has happened every month for the last three years, the Legislative Assembly, dominated by Nuevas Ideas, approved the continuation of the state of exception decree, which suspends certain constitutional rights and guarantees for the population, such as...
The Nuevas Ideas and PCN parties withheld their votes yesterday on implementing relief measures to reduce the impact of the Los Chorros highway closure on the affected population. The proposed measures were presented by the opposition parties ARENA and Vamos, which...
More than 60 organizations, mostly U.S.-based, are calling on the United Nations (UN) Security Council to investigate, via a visit from a special rapporteur, the terms of the migration agreement between El Salvador and the United States and the conditions of...
