Between his hands, Mateo was carefully carrying a present wrapped in colorful paper and tied with a paper ribbon. It was one of his children’s birthdays, but before going home he had to attend a meeting at the offices of the Basic Comprehensive Health System (Sistema...
The Alianza Nacional contra la Privatización del Agua (National Alliance Against Water Privatization) announced this Wednesday that they will file a claim of unconstitutionality against the General Mining Law, passed in December of last year. The legal action will be...
The Roundtable for Food Sovereignty (La Mesa por la Soberanía Alimentaria, MpSA), composed of 20 organizations and networks nationwide, is urging the Salvadoran government to adopt measures to confront the country’s water and food crisis. Speaking at a press...
The Salvadoran Episcopate (Episcopado salvadoreño) submitted a letter—backed by 150,000 signatures—to the Legislative Assembly (Asamblea Legislativa) on Tuesday, seeking to repeal the Metallic Mining Law (Ley de Minería Metálica), approved in December 2024 with the...
Enrique Anaya, a constitutional attorney, referred to the transfer of members of the Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua (Aragua Train), who were taken to the Centro de Confinamiento para Terroristas (CECOT) (Confinement Center for Terrorists). Anaya said,...
Some were placed into armored vehicles, others in buses. All were transferred to the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), the mega-prison symbolic of the Nayib Bukele government’s fight against gangs, where their hair and beards were shaved, their...