The National Union for the Defense of the Working Class (UNT) and other independent trade unions in El Salvador consider the country’s inclusion on the International Labour Organization (ILO) shortlist a minimal but indispensable measure, given a context in...
I left El Salvador in August 2021 without saying goodbye to anyone. Without saying goodbye to my family, or to my dogs who stayed behind staring at the door. Without hugging the friends who truly know me. I left behind my career as a lawyer, my years of activism for...
Unidentified workers began felling trees on May 26 to build the new International Fair and Convention Center (CIFCO) on the El Espino estate, between San Salvador and Antiguo Cuscatlán. The government of the People’s Republic of China, which donated the project,...
Paving work being carried out by the Usulután Este City Hall on 6th Avenue North, between 4th and 6th Streets West in the city of Usulután, was halted this week after beginning on May 21. According to residents in the area, work was done only on the day the project...
The citizen movement Somos El Espino said that work has already begun in El Espino, in the area where the International Center for Fairs and Conventions (CIFCO) is to be built. A representative of the organization said they have received reports from neighbors living...
The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) ruled inadmissible three unconstitutionality lawsuits filed against the state of exception, a measure in effect in El Salvador since March 2022 under which more than 92,000 arrests have been recorded....
