In a high-profile deportation operation over the weekend, the Trump administration deported to El Salvador 17 people it claims were foreign criminals, including alleged members of the Venezuela-based gang Tren de Aragua and the infamous MS-13, according to the the...
In the latest SJH report on 370 deaths recorded between April 3, 2022, and March 15, 2025, under the framework of the state of exception, there are 61 people who did not survive their first three months in prison. Of these, 40 died within the first 30 days. These...
On March 15, more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants were accused of engagement in gang activity and deported from the U.S. — not to Venezuela, but to El Salvador, some 1,600 miles away from their home country. Ellen Moodie, an anthropology professor at the University of...
Various organizations and social sectors reiterate their call to restore the Law Banning Metal Mining (Ley de Prohibición de la Minería Metálica) in El Salvador, which was passed on March 29, 2017, and repealed by the new General Law on Metal Mining (Ley General de...
Benedictine Sr. Mary Elizabeth Schweiger said it’s been a long time since she visited El Salvador, but she has never forgotten its people. That’s why she recently joined an effort to reverse a new law that allows mining in the country. ...
The unofficial account desaparecidosSV has reported finding seven bodies so far this month, for which the authorities did not determine a preliminary cause of death, nor did they inform the public about these incidents. On March 1, the authorities processed two scenes...
