Heavy rains on Sunday afternoon triggered landslides, flooding, and washouts, disrupting mobility at key points across the Área Metropolitana de San Salvador and Santa Tecla. Below are the areas to avoid and guidance for safer travel. La Sabana Street and the Merliot...
The rains that fell on Sunday afternoon caused widespread damage across the country: traffic accidents, flooded streets, landslides, and even sinkholes in some areas. In Ciudad Merliot, a powerful torrent swept away several vehicles. Residents captured footage of a...
The political bargain President Nayib Bukele struck with the leaders of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and Barrio 18—and the prospect that its details could become public—continues to dog the Salvadoran leader from a courtroom in New York, where some of those leaders,...
The tortilla stall that María Magdalena Velázquez, 54, has cobbled together from corrugated metal and cardboard feeds her six grandchildren. The sounds of children playing drift from the back room, and she asks the eldest to read the headings on a sheaf of papers....
The Nuevas Ideas lawmaker uses a private individual’s post on Movir’s Facebook group to accuse the Movement of Victims of the Regime of protecting gang members. The basis for his claim is images of a man captured in his hiding place in 2022, during the...
On Sunday, September 21, the Movimiento de Víctimas del Régimen (Movement of Victims of the Regime, MOVIR), El Salvador, confirmed the death of Manuel Mira, a teacher at the Joaquín Rodenzo Educational Complex in San Salvador. He had been arrested by the Policía...
