On Thursday, January 15, the Movimiento Todos Somos El Espino (We Are All El Espino Movement) filed a criminal complaint with the Fiscalía General de la República (Attorney General’s Office) regarding the alleged commission of environmental crimes during the...
Latin American progressive leaders are increasingly being backed into a corner on organized crime by pressure from the Trump administration and from their own voters, who point to the results from El Salvador president’s war on gangs. The hunger for a more...
El Salvador has marked one year since the Government of Nayib Bukele resurrected metal mining. In that time, no mines have opened, but environmentalists are already being criminalized, persecuted, and driven into exile. Those who remain in the country keep a low...
In December, CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss shelved a “60 Minutes” story about the Trump administration deporting Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador’s CECOT prison. The reason, Weiss told staff: The segment didn’t have an on-camera interview with a Trump...
“60 Minutes” on Sunday aired its story about Trump administration deportations that was abruptly pulled from the newsmagazine’s lineup a month ago, a move that had triggered an internal battle about political pressure that spilled out into the open. Correspondent...
34 years ago, El Salvador signed a peace agreement after twelve years of a war that inflicted deep wounds, irreparable absences, and a fractured society. That signing on January 16, 1992, silenced not only the weapons. It was—or sought to be—a collective commitment to...
