The Pentagon was in a bind. The military had plucked two survivors from the Caribbean Sea in mid-October after striking a boat that U.S. officials said was carrying drugs, and it needed to figure out what to do with them. On a call with counterparts at the State...
The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, Mary Lawlor, expressed concern on Tuesday regarding the six-month extension of the investigative phase in the proceedings against Salvadoran lawyer Ruth López, which had been set to conclude on...
The criminal case concerning the El Mozote massacre advanced to trial in late November 2025, Cristosal confirmed on Tuesday through a statement. This organization, alongside Tutela Legal Dra. María Julia Hernández, forms the private prosecution in this criminal...
The voices of environmentalists in El Salvador—who have historically documented and denounced the exploitation of natural resources—now confront political persecution and censorship. The government of Nayib Bukele has transformed the state of exception and its Foreign...
Rafael Cartagena, a 46-year-old Salvadoran who has resided abroad for a short time, received a kidney transplant in 2022 at the Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social (Salvadoran Social Security Institute, ISSS), a decade after being diagnosed with kidney disease in...
The 2024 fiscal year confirms a marked decline in the financial transparency of political parties, as only four out of eight submitted financial information, notes Acción Ciudadana in its “Report on 2024 Financing and 2025 Political Party Transparency,”...
