The Press Association of El Salvador (Asociación de Periodistas de El Salvador, APES) called on Sunday on competent institutions to respect the right to freedom of press and expression, after an alert on Saturday about the possible arrest of some journalists from the...
The Asociación de Periodistas de El Salvador (APES) (Journalists’ Association of El Salvador) presented on Monday its 2024 Report on the State of Press Freedom in the Country, in which it highlighted not only the increase in aggressions against journalists and...
Mothers of disappeared persons reacted to the confessions a gang member made to the digital newspaper El Faro that gangs had an agreement with the Nayib Bukele government to reduce homicides and that, as part of that pact, an official suggested to them that “if...
Issuing three statements, declaring two national days, and granting a holiday on June 1, 2024. These six are all the decrees approved by the 2024-2024 Assembly in its first year to regulate matters related to human rights, the environment, the population’s labor...
In El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele called it a “regime of exception” three years ago. In the United States, Donald Trump calls it a “state of emergency.” The former rebelled against his own people, the latter against immigrants within the country. Both promised to...
Over the past week, international opprobrium against U.S. President Donald Trump’s deportations of Venezuelan immigrants from the U.S. to El Salvador’s mega-prison known as CECOT has gathered force. On Tuesday, a network of civil society organizations called on the...
