A group of men in blue rose in the middle of a hall awash in LED lights and screens. They were the only uniformed attendees inside the luxurious Complejo Salamanca in Nuevo Cuscatlán, a room otherwise filled with men in suits and foreign guests in evening wear. The...
For four decades El Salvador was known for death squads and civil war, and then for gang violence. But now, under President Nayib Bukele, the gangs that carved up the country have been routed. The members of the pandillas – the two main gangs were Mara...
Catalino Miranda, a former public transport businessman, is gravely ill, according to medical and judicial reports obtained by Revista Elementos. His relatives, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, stated that they were notified by the Zacamil National Hospital,...
The human rights organization Fundación de Estudios para la Aplicación del Derecho (Foundation for Studies in the Application of Law, Fespad) announced on Thursday it is shutting down its operations in El Salvador after nearly 37 years, due to the “legal...
Nayib Bukele’s government locked in El Salvador’s militarization in June 2019, and implementation began a month later, when the Plan Control Territorial (Territorial Control Plan, PCT) was launched, a security policy sold as the solution to gangs but that, in...
“Attempting to return to my country,” reads the description of his current location on his personal account on the social network X. Born in El Salvador in 1983, investigative journalist and editor-in-chief of the award-winning digital newspaper El Faro, Óscar...
