Santa Tecla’s Second Investigating Court extended the investigation phase against Alejandro Henríquez, an attorney and member of the Foro del Agua (Water Forum), and José Ángel Pérez, a pastor and community leader, by three months. As a result, this stage is now...
The United States agreed to pay the Government of El Salvador $4.7 million to accept up to 300 deported migrants, most of whom were Venezuelan. To accept them, the Trump Administration stipulated, among other conditions, that the funds not be used to offer legal...
The terms of a previously secret grant agreement between the United States and El Salvador facilitating the Trump-Vance administration’s practice of disappearing people indefinitely from U.S. territory into El Salvador’s notorious Centro de Confinamiento del...
Christian Guevara, head of the Nuevas Ideas caucus, posted a photograph on Wednesday taken in Washington, United States. In the photograph, lawmaker Guevara poses against a rainy Washington, D.C. backdrop. The image is already being shared by his colleagues, such as...
On Wednesday, the Legislative Assembly approved the new Geothermal Energy Law, with which the government seeks to attract new investment projects in geothermal energy in the country. According to the bill, the purpose of the statute is “to regulate the prospecting,...
Cristosal’s director, Noah Bullock, argued that the Foreign Agents Law (Ley de Agentes Extranjeros, LAEX) is less a regulatory framework than a framework for repression against civil society organizations in El Salvador. “This is not a regulatory framework; it is a...
