From 2021 onwards El Salvador has experienced a growing concentration of power in the executive, which increasingly controls the judicial and legislative branches, whose own oversight roles have been diminished. Despite the constitutional prohibition of immediate...
The promulgation of the 1983 Constitution was the institutional response to decades of authoritarian rule, the deterioration of the political system, and the urgent need to rebuild the credibility of State organs amid the civil war. In this context, strengthening the...
According to the dismissal letters delivered to the affected individuals, the justification provided by the Procuraduría para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos (Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman, PDDH) is a reduction in salary allocations within its 2026 budget....
A legal analysis by Cristosal warns that the reforms to the Municipal Code and the creation of the Law on the Registry of Legal Entities, pushed by the Executive and preliminarily endorsed by the Legislative Assembly, will impose greater government control and...
At least 140 prisoners have died while receiving medical care at the Jorge Mazzini National Hospital in Sonsonate, according to the latest report from Legal Humanitarian Aid (SJH), which reveals that by December 18, 2025, a total of 470 individuals had died in state...
Environmental lawyer Alejandro Henríquez and José Ángel Pérez, the religious leader of the Iglesia Cristiana Elim (Elim Christian Church), regained their freedom this Wednesday after being held at the Centro Penitenciario La Esperanza (La Esperanza Penitentiary),...
