The Cámara Primera contra el Crimen Organizado (First Chamber against Organized Crime) in Santa Tecla held a special appellate hearing on Tuesday, July 22, for three adolescents who had been convicted in January 2025 after appearing in a video that went viral in...
“The situation here is rather extreme. We have verified that a good part of the school is practically sinking, and the risk to the children makes repairs an urgent priority,” then-Education Minister Carla Hananía warned in 2019 after discovering ground subsidence at...
The Ministry of Health (MINSAL) has publicized new vacancies for physicians wishing to join the national hospital network. Through its social media channels, the ministry released a list of twenty-five specialties—including anesthesiology, cardiology, general surgery,...
International human rights organizations denounced in a hearing with the Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, IACHR) that El Salvador offers no safeguards for those engaged in defending human rights. The Wednesday...
“Both El Salvador and the United States bear responsibility for the victims, and each must shoulder its share of that accountability. Under no circumstances may they wash their hands of the matter and leave the victims utterly unprotected.” This is one of...
Julio González Jr. had agreed to be deported to Venezuela. When the 36-year-old office cleaner and house painter boarded the flight in Texas in March, he assumed it would take him back to his home country. Instead, the plane landed in El Salvador. “The horror movie...
