In one of his first extensive U.S. press interviews since being released from custody in July, conducted via video conference on Wednesday and published Thursday, Andry Hernández Romero described finding ways to survive by adapting to his fellow inmates, keeping a low...
Pastor José Ángel Pérez removed his blue cap and began to pray. He stood under a tree, surrounded by members of his congregation, Misión Cristiana Elim in El Triunfo, a rural community 15 miles southwest of San Salvador. On the morning of May 13, Pérez took part in a...
Judge Joan M. Azrack of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York asked the United States Department of Justice to justify the “suitability and merits” of the agreement between the government of President Donald Trump and his Salvadoran counterpart,...
Trump Grants Bukele Carte Blanche Nayib Bukele’s concentration of power in El Salvador is a familiar story by now. Since taking office in 2019, the Salvadoran president has suspended due process rights in the name of fighting crime, carrying out mass arrests of people...
In Perspective. The ruling-party-dominated Legislative Assembly approved, with 57 out of 60 votes, a highly contentious constitutional reform that extends the presidential term—from five to six years—eliminates runoff elections, and, most critically, enables...
For four months, no kidney transplants have been performed at the Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social (Salvadoran Social Security Institute) (ISSS), Dr. Rafael Aguirre, secretary general of the Sindicato de Médicos Trabajadores del Seguro Social (Social Security...
