The misappropriation of public funds and assets must be relentlessly pursued by the competent authority. If this pursuit is not universal, it loses effectiveness and is devalued, because it is perceived as an action motivated by illegitimate interests. The most recent...
The Episcopal Conference of El Salvador (CEDES) addressed the current Salvadoran situation, calling for the release of innocent individuals who have been detained and for an end to the persecution of human rights defenders. “For those already imprisoned, we ask:...
The undersigned organizations condemn the implementation of laws that endanger fundamental freedoms, including the right to free association and assembly, the right to defend human rights, and freedom of expression and access to information, as is currently happening...
“Here, it’s Herod’s Law: either you get fucked or get screwed.” – La Ley de Herodes (dir. Luis Estrada, Mexico, 1999) El Salvador approved the Foreign Agents Law this Tuesday. It has been presented as a regulation to control, supervise, and tax...
As has happened every month, at the request of Nuevas Ideas and through a fast-track procedure, the Legislative Assembly, dominated by the ruling party, approved another extension to the state of exception decree. This regime suspends three constitutional rights and...
El Salvador’s Ministry of Defense purchased ten Yagu armored vehicles for $2.6 million. On October 11, 2021, Minister of Defense René Merino Monroy authorized the purchase from IBN Military Industries Inc, a U.S.-domiciled company, according to the contract...
