Access Restricted to Community and Areas Surrounding CECOT in Tecoluca — Restringen paso hacia comunidad y zonas aledañas al CECOT en Tecoluca

04/18/2026

Residents of the La Periquera canton in the district of Tecoluca, San Vicente Sur, reported access restrictions on the road leading to the community, which also leads to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT). Locals said that a boom gate was installed over a month...

More than 700 buses and minibuses won’t be replaced this year, transit operators warn — Más de 700 buses y microbuses no se renovarían este año, advierten transportistas

04/18/2026

Lucio Vásquez, a member of the National Transportation Roundtable (MNT), said this Thursday, April 16, that more than 700 vehicles wouldn’t be replaced this year due to the economic difficulties facing the sector. According to what was stated, 978 vehicles were...

Life Imprisonment, Perpetuity of the Exception — Cadena perpetua, perpetuidad de la excepción

04/18/2026

First came the angry discrediting of the authors of the report on the critical state of human rights in the country. Then came a sort of revenge with more than a hint of a tantrum. Lawmakers, acting on “precise instructions” from Bukele, amended the...

Cristosal Denounces Abuses Under State of Exception Before U.S. Congressional Commission — Cristosal denuncia abusos bajo régimen de excepción ante comisión del Congreso EEUU

04/17/2026

Cristosal director Noah Bullock appeared Thursday before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the U.S. House of Representatives to denounce a deterioration in El Salvador’s human rights situation after four years under a state of exception. “The...

Journalists and human rights defenders persecuted in Bukele’s El Salvador — Anatomía de un cerco: irse para sobrevivir, quedarse para resistir en El Salvador de Bukele

04/17/2026

“The best-case scenario is that the state captures me,” says Ángel Flores, the regional coordinator of the Indigenous Movement for the Articulation of the Struggles of the Ancestral Peoples (MILPA), one of the most vocal organisations against state mega-projects in El...

Bukele signs reform allowing life imprisonment for minors as young as 12 in El Salvador — Bukele firma una reforma que permite prisión perpetua para menores a partir de los 12 años en El Salvador

04/17/2026

Constitutional reforms approved by El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly will take effect on April 26 and, among other measures, include the possibility of sentencing minors as young as 12 to life in prison, according to the latest publication in the Official...