Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara arrived in El Salvador this Friday after being deported from the United States, following a U.S. court’s refusal to stay the immigration proceedings he faced. U.S. authorities handed the journalist over at the Aeropuerto...
The Movimiento de Víctimas del Régimen (MOVIR) voiced its concern on October 3 regarding how the mass trials will unfold under the state of exception and about the ongoing detentions. “As MOVIR, we are concerned about the issue of mass trials. We are talking about...
Teachers’ unions concurred that the recent prohibition of inclusive language in the education system is not a priority and that authorities should focus on resolving other problems affecting students and teachers. Bases Magisteriales (Teachers’...
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has repeatedly claimed that El Salvador is now the safest country in the Western hemisphere. Indeed, homicide rates are lower than they have ever been since he declared a State of Exception in 2022, and consequently arrested over...
Natalia Raquel Bernal Gómez, a 21-year-old woman, was reported missing by her family on Friday, September 5, 2025. Her decomposing body was found four days later, on September 9, in Nuevo Cuscatlán, a district of La Libertad Este. Relatives of the victim stated they...
The Salvadoran Journalists Association (Asociación de Periodistas de El Salvador, APES) will relocate its legal personality abroad after facing multiple restrictions and threats that have curtailed its ability to operate within El Salvador’s civic space, the...
