The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) records that many human rights defenders in custody, excluding the arrests made during 2025. At least a dozen have been forced to seek refuge abroad to escape the danger of arbitrary detention. Last week, the World...
For nearly six years, Task Force Vulcan, a federal law enforcement team set up by President Trump during his first term in the White House, was enormously successful in pursuing its central mission: taking down the leadership of the violent transnational street gang...
Even among the brutal ranks of the transnational gang called MS-13, Vladimir Arévalo Chávez stands out as a highly effective manager of murder, prosecutors say. Known as “Vampiro,” he has been accused of overseeing killings in at least three countries: of migrants in...
When Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, agreed earlier this year to imprison deportees from the United States, he had a specific request of the Trump administration: the return of top MS-13 leaders in American custody. For the past several months, a team of...
El Salvador’s president said he would send inmates of the country’s notorious mega-prison to France in the wake of a Paris Fashion Week show critiquing the government’s treatment of the prisoners. Nayib Bukele criticised a collection debuted by Willy Chavarria, a...
Many Salvadorans now spend between two and five hours a day trapped in the heavy congestion that has become the new normal throughout Greater San Salvador. Urban-planning specialists warn that the standstill not only cripples mobility but also unleashes a cascade of...
