Irma Landaverde didn’t dare wrap her son’s shoes in plastic, fold up his clothes, or store his colognes and sheets in a drawer until October 2024, eight months after she last saw him. “I didn’t think this would last so long,” she sighs. Irma has been torn apart over...
On a hot afternoon in mid-March, Largo walks with a small black bag in his hands. His tall, slender figure sways with the joy of a child carrying a new toy. But Largo is no child. He’s a 30-year-old member of the Mara Salvatrucha 13 (MS-13) gang. And what he’s...
At midnight, the neighborhood’s silence was broken by the roar of several patrol cars. Eight police officers quickly got out and surrounded Dieguito’s humble home in the western part of the country. His older sister, 15, was reviewing notes when she saw...
“When I see on TV that they say there’s full health coverage in the country, I think those people are lucky because we don’t have that care here. They should come inspect these border communities where we are abandoned,” laments María Alvarado...
On March 24, on the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Monsignor Óscar Arnulfo Romero, social movements marched to the Supreme Court in San Salvador carrying a banner of the iconic San Salvador archbishop and human rights defender. With 60,000 signatures, they...
After President Donald Trump‘s Department of Homeland Security admitted that it deported an innocent Maryland man to an El Salvadoran mega-prison known for torture and human-rights abuses, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt brushed off a judge’s order to...
