After it emerged that Judge Joan M. Azrack had unsealed the case against Salvadoran gang member Vladimir Arévalo Chávez, alias “Vampiro de Monserrat,” a leader of the MS-13, a Long Island judge lashed out at U.S. authorities. As quoted by *The New York...
A new civil-coexistence ordinance adopted by the municipal council of San Salvador Centro stiffens the restrictions on street vending and unauthorized businesses. Passed on May 21, 2025, and in force since its official publication on July 16, the measure standardizes...
At least 130 human rights defenders, journalists, and union leaders have been driven from El Salvador since 2020, civil society organizations denounced today during a hearing before the IACHR in which the Salvadoran state refused to participate. The public hearing,...
“The relatives of health personnel who died from Covid-19 have been threatened and persecuted since 2020. We filed complaints with the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman (PDDH), but we were mistreated there and our case was shelved. Many of us left the country...
One night in mid-May, some of the Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States to a prison in El Salvador tried to break the locks on their cells with metal rails from their beds. It was a futile gesture of rebellion; no one thought they could escape. Still,...
Andry José Hernández Romero, 32, returned to his hometown of Capacho Nuevo on Wednesday, where he was embraced by his parents and greeted by a crowd of neighbours who had prepared a celebratory meal in his honour. The emotional homecoming marked the end of a harrowing...
