The experience of the past 25 years in Latin America is unequivocal: wherever presidential term limits have been eliminated, democracy has eroded, devolving into autocracy or dictatorship masked by sham elections. This is precisely what is unfolding in El Salvador, a...
The First Sentencing Court of San Salvador convened the trial against former San Salvador Mayor Ernesto Muyshondt on August 13. He, along with four other defendants, is accused of allegedly negotiating with gangs in exchange for votes. They are charged with electoral...
RFI spoke with José Artiaga, director of the Salvadoran NGO Legal Humanitarian Aid, to provide an overview of the allegations of torture in El Salvador’s prisons. Under the state of exception decreed in El Salvador and implemented in March 2022 as a measure to...
In the first half of 2025, the Chivo Pets veterinary hospital spent its entire budget allotted for the year. This is reflected in the latest budget execution update on the government’s Transparencia Fiscal (Fiscal Transparency Portal), corresponding to the use of...
It is 2015, 3:50 in the morning on a typical day for a doctor we will call Milton. At that hour, this health worker arrives on his old motorcycle at Hospital San Rafael de Santa Tecla. Access for medical staff is via a side street adjacent to the hospital, just where...
The Minister of Justice and Public Security, Gustavo Villatoro, sent the Legislative Assembly a bill to amend at least six articles of the Law Against Organized Crime that would, among other things, extend by two more years the waiting period for the Attorney...
