Nayib Bukele’s government locked in El Salvador’s militarization in June 2019, and implementation began a month later, when the Plan Control Territorial (Territorial Control Plan, PCT) was launched, a security policy sold as the solution to gangs but that, in...
“Attempting to return to my country,” reads the description of his current location on his personal account on the social network X. Born in El Salvador in 1983, investigative journalist and editor-in-chief of the award-winning digital newspaper El Faro, Óscar...
Forty specialists from Rosales National Hospital have resigned their posts over the last two months, up to August 29, according to three physicians from the hospital, another who previously worked there, and a fifth who works in an administrative role at the Ministry...
Students at the Western Multidisciplinary Faculty of the University of El Salvador (UES) in Santa Ana, particularly those in the medical program, have voiced frustration and concern over cramped classrooms. With enrollments exceeding room capacities, many are forced...
El Salvador, the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world and more than 3,000 complaints of human rights violations during the state of exception, is hosting the first Global Summit on Human Rights, an event organized beginning this Wednesday by the...
Families belonging to the Movement of Victims of the State of Exception (MOVIR) who were denouncing human rights violations in El Salvador attempted to deliver a letter to Ombudsman Raquel Caballero de Guevara, as well as to various international delegations attending...
