When President Nayib Bukele declared the state of exception in El Salvador in March 2022, he promised an end to a longstanding nightmare in the country: the brutal grip of street gangs such as the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and Barrio 18. His audacious offensive, backed...
The account Desaparecidos SOS El Salvador (SOS Missing Persons El Salvador; @DesaparecidosSV on X) reported 22 deaths during August 2025—including suicides, femicides, and the discovery of bodies—none of which were reported by the authorities. According to the posts,...
The most recent photographs the family has of businessman Catalino Miranda Arteaga are grim, and his family insists this is not how they want to remember him. For this reason, they are asking that he be granted alternatives to detention and sent home so he can be...
Nayib Bukele came to power on an anti-corruption platform, but after six years in power, his government is among the most questioned for the immense opacity with which it operates. Meanwhile, during the same period, his family clan and 28 of his officials have...
The director and deputy director of the National Technical Industrial Institute (INTI) in San Salvador, Óscar Manuel Melara Rubio and Eliezer Otoniel Delgado, respectively, were dismissed from their posts, allegedly without due process. This has alarmed the teaching...
The company Nuevo Sistema de Mercados, S.E.M. de C.V. (Simerca), which manages various markets in San Salvador, including Hula Hula, reported losses of $479,943 during 2024. This was not the first year of red ink. For the second consecutive year, external auditors...
