On Wednesday, June 4, 2025, Ruth Eleonora López Alfaro, a Salvadoran lawyer, human rights defender, and a regional standard-bearer in the fight against corruption, was ordered into preventive detention by the Twelfth Peace Court of San Salvador. The charge: illicit...
In this interview, Monsignor William Iraheta, Bishop of the Diocese of Santiago de María, breaks down the contents of the Pastoral Letter titled “A Voice Crying with Hope in the Desert,” recently published by the Episcopal Conference of El Salvador. The document, the...
The prestigious US agency ProPublica has published new details about alleged pacts between Nayib Bukele’s administration and gangs. The outlet revealed that federal investigators suspected Salvadoran politicians, including Bukele, were involved in diverting US...
The Asociación de Periodistas de El Salvador (APES) reported on Friday (June 13, 2025) that it has documented the forced displacement of at least 40 media workers in recent weeks due to “multiple cases of harassment, intimidation, and arbitrary...
Crypto Remittances Keep Failing to Reach Widespread Adoption in El Salvador Numbers from the central bank found out that, even with the advantages that it might offer, crypto has had a hard time breaking into the current remittance structure in El Salvador. The volume...
Down several flights of stairs in Fountain Street Church’s basement, the archives is a small room with several rows of overflowing bookshelves and filing cabinets. A departure from the large, colorful stained-glass windows and polished wood of the church’s main...
