February 25 marked one year since the detention of Fidel Zavala, spokesperson for the Unidad de Defensa de Derechos Humanos y Comunitarios (Unit for the Defense of Human and Community Rights, UNIDEHC), who was arrested in 2025. That same day, residents of the La...
The “people” want considerably more than the state of exception. The vice president’s vision — currently touring Europe in search of investors — is shortsighted and distorted. His argument, seemingly airtight, is self-serving. He informed the press...
Relatives of individuals detained under the state of exception have reported that the Bureau of Prisons (Centros Penales) is keeping people behind bars even after courts have issued release orders. Criminal law attorneys warn that, by doing so, the authorities are...
Amid the ongoing debate over the sustainability of El Salvador’s pension system, a recently published analysis by the firm EMFI contends that the country’s looming electoral year may be driving the delay in amendments to the Pension Law requested by the...
By Victor Ramos With fewer than two years to go before the 2027 general elections, El Salvador’s political map reveals an unprecedented concentration of power around President Nayib Bukele and his party Nuevas Ideas, set against a scattered opposition devoid of...
The Agrupación Ciudadana por la Despenalización del Aborto (Citizens’ Coalition for the Decriminalization of Abortion), the only NGO in El Salvador dedicated to defending women’s right to choose during pregnancy, announced its legal dissolution on Monday...
