A nongovernmental organization has recorded at least 10 femicides between January 1 and May 13, 2026, in El Salvador, a country where authorities do not classify the murders of women as such and where a portion of the crimes are committed by the victim’s current...
If you’re paying more for certain products, it’s very likely due to the impact of the war in Iran. Although the Islamic nation has no direct economic ties with El Salvador, the country is feeling the impact through rising costs for petroleum derivatives...
The so-called “Bukele model”—a reference to Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador since 2019 and now a benchmark for iron-fist policies—has become one of the most debated criminal justice phenomena worldwide. Its results in reducing violence have been...
Ruth López is an open wound on the face of the El Salvador governed by Nayib Bukele, the cool dictator. Bukele threw Ruth in prison a year ago, on May 18, 2025, and to do it, he and his attorney general invented a criminal case. That prosecutor has said Ruth committed...
The nongovernmental organization Cristosal publicly denounced, in an official statement, that human rights defender and Salvadoran attorney Ruth López was admitted to a hospital in San Salvador and underwent emergency surgery. The organization added that the...
From exile in Guatemala City, the organization Cristosal reported that Ruth López’s family learned last weekend of health problems affecting the lawyer and notary, who was reportedly admitted to and underwent a procedure at a hospital in San Salvador. However,...
