The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a US$170 million loan to help El Salvador strengthen the economies of the Santa Tecla and La Libertad districts through a program to improve access to quality public services and urban infrastructure in both...
The magistrates of the Cámara Tercera de lo Penal de la Primera Sección del Centro (Third Criminal Chamber of the First Central Section) upheld the provisional detention ordered by the Tribunal Tercero de Sentencia (Third Sentencing Court) against former Attorney...
Police in El Salvador arbitrarily arrested two human rights defenders who were peacefully protesting a mass eviction and have been holding them in pretrial detention since the end of May 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch has reviewed videos and...
The very afternoon that Nuevas Ideas (NI) lawmakers announced El Salvador’s withdrawal from the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN), their chief representative in that parliament requested that the regional body’s finance secretary advance his August and September...
The Asociación de Periodistas de El Salvador (APES) announced on Tuesday that it will cease executing projects funded by international cooperation and will close its offices until further notice due to the “stifling, arbitrary, and illegal conditions imposed” by the...
The Asociación de Periodistas de El Salvador (APES) announced on September 16, 2025, that it will cease executing its internationally funded projects and close its offices. The decision, the organization stated, stems from the “stifling, arbitrary, and unlawful...
