Allegations of workplace abuse at the Salvadoran Foreign Ministry, which began to surface in recent months, have started to resonate beyond its headquarters. This time, three former foreign service officials—whom we will call Andrea, Cecilia, and Rosa—are reporting...
Witness América Latina (Witness Latin America) demanded the immediate release of lawyer Alejandro Henríquez and community leader José Ángel Pérez, detained by the National Civil Police (PNC). Both were accompanying families from the El Bosque Agricultural Cooperative,...
After mounting pressure, on April 17 U.S. Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen met with Kilmar Abrego García, 29, a Maryland man wrongfully deported to El Salvador on March 15 by the Trump administration. Abrego García was granted a rare opportunity to speak with someone...
Their news site had just exposed details of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s alleged deals with the country’s gangs. Now the three journalists were faced with a choice they had long dreaded. El Faro — Spanish for lighthouse — is the premier independent...
Victor Barahona was grateful when soldiers started rounding up gang members who had long terrorized this working-class city. No longer would his grandchildren pass drug deals or be startled from sleep by the crack of gunfire. But when El Salvador’s military started...
Panamanian singer-songwriter Rubén Blades on Saturday called Nayib Bukele’s decision not to return to the U.S. a deportee sent to El Salvador due to an “administrative error” “strange,” and expressed hope that the Salvadoran president...
