VAMOS assembly members who back Claudia Ortiz held an Extraordinary National Assembly on Sunday, convened by the lawmaker and other national secretaries of the National Executive Council (CEN); at the assembly, members were elected and sworn in to fill vacancies on...
Police officers reported Sunday night that human skeletal remains had been found in the Monteca canton of Nueva Esparta, located in the municipality of La Unión Norte in the country’s east. According to preliminary information and an identification made by his wife,...
The Llort Chacón family announced on Sunday, through the social media accounts of the El Árbol de Dios gallery, the death of Aura Stella Chacón de Llort, wife of Salvadoran artist Fernando Llort, at the age of 74. “With deep sorrow, the Llort Chacón family announces...
Legal Humanitarian Aid (SJH) has documented that between March 2022, with the start of the state of exception, and September 25, 2026, at least 571 people have died in state custody, 88 of them this year. The last four cases involved inmates held at the Izalco prison...
The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) awarded Spanish company INDRA a contract for the logistics, operations, and technology for the development, implementation, and execution of overseas voting in El Salvador’s 2027 presidential and legislative elections, for...
On the night of September 13, 2026, a friend sent me a message to tell me that someone had shown him photos of a military deployment he had not seen before in San Salvador, except at the most recent presidential inaugurations. He told me a national radio and...
