The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights called on the government of El Salvador to protect three Salvadoran men deported by the United States in a decision published Tuesday that said they had been held without the ability to communicate with their lawyers or...
Gilberto stands beside a concrete washbasin at a fish stall along the shore of Lake Suchitlán, in the San Juan community of Suchitoto. Beside him, two women sort and wash fish freshly pulled from the water on a Thursday morning in November. As he plunges the knife...
The Movimiento de Víctimas del Régimen (Movement of Regime Victims, MOVIR) reported on social media the death of 59-year-old José Arnulfo Fernández Flores, who was incarcerated at the Izalco Penal Center in Sonsonate. With him, the toll reaches 455 individuals who...
“The [Cuscatlán] market no longer exists; they are currently remodeling it. It will house a shopping center and central government offices,” stated a municipal employee regarding the renovations conducted by Ministry of Public Works (MOPT) staff. The site...
United Nations rapporteurs and experts criticized on Wednesday the issuance by Interpol of “Red Notices”—international alerts for locating and provisionally detaining individuals—against two Salvadoran human rights defenders who have applied for asylum in...
José Ángel Pérez began his service to the residents of the El Bosque Cooperative in La Libertad, El Salvador, 25 years ago. His humble home is located outside the boundaries of the land allocated to cooperative members during the agrarian reform, and thus he was not a...