After 4:00 p.m. this Monday, June 2, the Fiscalía General de la República (Attorney General’s Office, FGR) filed formal charges against Ruth Eleonora López Alfaro with San Salvador’s Twelfth Peace Court, which was on duty. According to sources close to the...
Lawyer and human rights activist Ruth Eleonora López was criminally charged in El Salvador on Monday for her alleged participation in the embezzlement of public funds, her lawyer Antonio Aguilar reported. Aguilar added that the Fiscalía General de El Salvador (El...
Defense lawyers in the El Bosque Cooperative case informed YSUCA that they will appeal the ruling of the First Peace Court of Santa Tecla, which last Friday ordered six months of pre-trial detention for Pastor José Ángel Pérez of Iglesia Cristiana Elim (Elim Christian...
Salvadoran gangs grew and strengthened for decades in a context of violence, lack of opportunities, and family breakdown. And Nayib Bukele’s security policy, so well-known worldwide, is not addressing the roots of the problem; moreover, it may be laying the...
The Justice Department disclosed that Secretary of State Marco Rubio is leading negotiations for the return of a Venezuelan man sent to a Salvadoran prison. The disclosure, made in Monday court filings, is no guarantee the Trump administration will secure the return...
About to begin his seventh year in power—the second beyond the limits established in El Salvador’s Constitution—Nayib Bukele remains an enormously popular president, despite having consolidated an international image as a “dictator.” It is a label that doesn’t bother...
