The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) granted precautionary measures on behalf of Salvadoran Elmer Concepción Romero Yanes, who was one of those deported by the Donald Trump administration and sent to prison in March 2025, considering that he is in a...
Nayib Bukele had a categorical stance on the rules of democratic play in El Salvador: “A person can be president 80 times, if they want, but not consecutively. That is to guarantee they do not use their power to stay in power,” he stated in 2013, when he governed the...
A woman who recently regained her freedom shared an account of the living conditions at the Apanteos Prison, one of the main women’s penitentiaries in El Salvador, and confirmed the existence of innocent prisoners. Her testimony, shared by the Victims of the...
There are governments that imprison people. There are others that try to imprison ideas. In El Salvador, something even more serious is happening: an attempt is being made to imprison the very possibility of the working class organizing independently once again. That...
The Salvadoran State, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, could intervene in the situation currently facing ten compatriots in Russia, where they remain missing after being taken to that country and...
Servindi, July 29, 2026 — The chronicle “El exilio nos alcanza” won one of the awards given by the Gabo Foundation, highlighting the Nayib Bukele government’s pressure on freedom of expression and journalists in El Salvador. The chronicle, written by...
