William Pineda Portillo, 31, a native of a municipality in Chalatenango, pleaded guilty to the crime of racketeering conspiracy in a federal court in Boston, Massachusetts, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). On July 8, Senior U.S. District...
Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador remain ‘totally isolated,’ family members and human rights activists stated this Thursday following a visit to the Central American country last week. Since...
In Guatemala, it meant prison for Jose Rubén Zamora and the exile of other reporters; and even before the recent onslaught by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, it had cost the freedom of community journalists who reported from the territories on the corrupt...
The attorneys for lawyer and human rights activist Ruth López, detained since May 18 on charges of alleged illicit enrichment, appealed on Wednesday (June 18, 2025) the provisional detention ordered by a Salvadoran court. “One month after her detention, Ruth...
The state of exception, the main security measure of President Nayib Bukele’s administration against gangs, continues to be rated “well” three years after its implementation in El Salvador, according to survey results presented this Thursday....
Salvadoran writer Horacio Castellanos Moya believes his country has become “an authoritarian regime” similar to those of the 1960s and 70s, when the military ruled El Salvador, as he describes in his latest novel, ‘Cornamenta’. In an interview with EFE in...
