The price of the basic food basket in El Salvador reached $247.60 in urban areas and $181.05 in rural areas as of last February, Danilo Pérez, executive director of the Centro para la Defensa del Consumidor (Consumer Defense Center), reported this Wednesday. Pérez...
Fifty-six percent of the clinics belonging to the Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social (ISSS) (Salvadoran Social Security Institute) are experiencing shortages of medication to treat arterial hypertension, specifically irbesartan, said Dr. Rafael Aguirre, secretary...
Amnesty International warned in a press release on Tuesday that Salvadoran human rights activist Fidel Zavala faces an immediate risk of torture. Amnesty urge Salvadoran authorities to protect Zavala’s physical and psychological safety and ensure all those detained...
Salvadoran human rights defender Fidel Zavala risks being subjected to torture and other ill-treatment. Zavala was recently moved to a prison where the same guards work, he had previously accused of torturing and ill-treating people in detention. Zavala’s life and...
Trump administration officials have described the men deported to El Salvador prisons last month as “the worst of the worst,” suggesting they were gang members involved in murder, rape and kidnapping. The reality is that of 238 migrants — mostly Venezuelan — that...
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House Monday, press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters. “They will discuss El Salvador’s partnership on using their super max prison for Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gang members...
