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TPS cancellation for Salvadorans “would cause incalculable harm”: U.S. lawmakers push to prevent end of temporary protection — Cancelación del TPS para salvadoreños “causaría un daño incalculable”: legisladores estadounidenses presionan para evitar fin de protección temporal

TPS cancellation for Salvadorans “would cause incalculable harm”: U.S. lawmakers push to prevent end of temporary protection — Cancelación del TPS para salvadoreños “causaría un daño incalculable”: legisladores estadounidenses presionan para evitar fin de protección temporal

07/15/2026

With less than two months before Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Salvadorans expires (September 9, 2026), a group of 80 members of the U.S. Congress asked the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to extend the benefit and prevent some 200,000 migrants from...
First came the dead fish, then invasive plants. A year later and Lake Suchitlán’s pollution remains a mystery — Primero llegaron los peces muertos, luego las plantas invasoras. Un año después, la contaminación del lago Suchitlán sigue siendo un misterio

First came the dead fish, then invasive plants. A year later and Lake Suchitlán’s pollution remains a mystery — Primero llegaron los peces muertos, luego las plantas invasoras. Un año después, la contaminación del lago Suchitlán sigue siendo un misterio

07/15/2026

Words and Photos by Camilo Freedman in San Salvador From the village of Copapayo, Noel Avalos recalls the morning they ran to the shore of Lake Suchitlán, El Salvador’s main hydroelectric reservoir, also known as Cerrón Grande, and its largest body of freshwater, to...
The women holding together the families of victims of repression in El Salvador: “I wish I were an ant so I could slip into the prison and tell my son that I’m still here waiting for him” — Las mujeres que sostienen las familias víctimas de la represión en El Salvador: “Me gustaría ser hormiga para entrar en la cárcel y decirle a mi hijo que aquí sigo esperándolo”

The women holding together the families of victims of repression in El Salvador: “I wish I were an ant so I could slip into the prison and tell my son that I’m still here waiting for him” — Las mujeres que sostienen las familias víctimas de la represión en El Salvador: “Me gustaría ser hormiga para entrar en la cárcel y decirle a mi hijo que aquí sigo esperándolo”

07/15/2026

When her six-year-old granddaughter, Keila Aguilar, asks her for the fourth time to dance with her to the rhythm of her YouTube idol, 51-year-old María Lidia Lemus sighs deeply, summons the last of the day’s energy, and agrees. After a few steps in her home in...
Nuevas Ideas, following a predictable script, ratifies Bukele’s candidacy to seek a third consecutive term — Nuevas Ideas, siguiendo un guion predecible, ratifica la candidatura de Bukele para que busque un tercer periodo consecutivo

Nuevas Ideas, following a predictable script, ratifies Bukele’s candidacy to seek a third consecutive term — Nuevas Ideas, siguiendo un guion predecible, ratifica la candidatura de Bukele para que busque un tercer periodo consecutivo

07/15/2026

The Nuevas Ideas script played out without surprises. In the internal election, designed for a single precandidacy and without data open to the public or its members, the ruling party ratified Nayib Bukele and his running mate, Félix Ulloa, on July 12 to run for a...