United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Tuesday the designation of the Barrio 18 gang as a transnational terrorist organization, accusing it of threatening U.S. national security. With this, the gang joins the same category as its historic rival,...
Pedro Cruz, the defense attorney for the Santa Marta environmentalists, declared that “justice has triumphed” upon learning of the ruling from the Tribunal de Sentencia de San Vicente (San Vicente Trial Court), which acquitted the defendants of the crimes of murder...
Claudia Ortiz (San Salvador, 38) has become the most visible political figure of the opposition to Nayib Bukele in El Salvador. Her political capital is far from matching the president’s propaganda machine and overwhelming popularity, but today she is the only leader...
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) announced on Tuesday that it has issued precautionary measures in favor of lawyers Ruth López and Enrique Anaya, critics of President Nayib Bukele’s government who are detained in El Salvador, because they...
Analyst and human rights defender Celia Medrano stressed that the Salvadoran state must comply with the precautionary measures ordered by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) for Ruth López and Enrique Anaya, warning that the state of exception is...
Seven months before the government created a new waste collection framework, Empresa Transmisora de El Salvador (El Salvador Transmission Company, ETESAL), a state-owned enterprise in the country’s electric power sector, incorporated a company called Recolección...
