Evangelical churches are often pigeonholed as conservative or “apolitical,” yet history offers another portrait: believers who, compelled by the gospel, have dared to defy human laws they judge unjust or inhumane and therefore contrary to God’s will. For these...
Men with shaved heads, dressed in all-white outfits, walk in a single-file line into a large auditorium with their hands tied behind their backs. They are forced to kneel, then they are bound together in circular formation, facing away from one another. This haunting...
Integrated Health System (Sistema Integrado de Salud, SIS) is a nationwide digital network that links public hospitals and health clinics, providing real-time patient data. It now appears inside the ISSS record as another tab. “With the exception of outpatient...
As he advances along the dimly lit street toward the stop, distant dogs bark and, now and then, a motorcycle shatters the silence. Even at this hour several people are already waiting. He is not alone. Thousands of Salvadorans from Soyapango, Ilopango, San Martín and...
The constitutional lawyer Enrique Anaya has been committed to the investigative phase of the proceedings and remanded to provisional custody following this week’s initial hearing in the Juzgado Séptimo de Paz (Seventh Justice of the Peace Court). In response, his...
“Better to laugh before you cry. And if you still have a voice, mock them…” Peasant wisdom from Morazán When the state-of-exception shredder runs out of gang members to imprison, it simply fabricates a new gang—or floats wild claims about forty thousand hidden gang...
