Less than three kilometers from the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) (Terrorism Confinement Center), there are wells, rivers, and streams that have sparked concern and uncertainty among residents of the communities closest to President Nayib Bukele’s...
The president of ACPES, Javier Hernández, confirmed that the low enrollment has also affected the sector, forcing the closure of six private educational institutions; meanwhile, another ten are still awaiting enrollment data from February to determine whether they...
The organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned that the recent criminal reforms approved by the Asamblea Legislativa (Legislative Assembly) place children and adolescents in serious danger by allowing them to be transferred to adult prisons. According to HRW, this...
The legal uncertainty that El Salvador is experiencing could become its main drag in the race to seize the new international market opportunities created by the wave of new tariffs approved and promised by Donald Trump’s administration in the United States. What...
El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly has approved measures that will transfer children to the country’s adult prison system, exposing them to a heightened risk of abuse and violating international juvenile justice standards, Human Rights Watch said today. On February...
Human Rights Watch (HRW), in a Monday release, claimed that a new El Salvador law, which transfers incarcerated children to the adult prison system, violates international juvenile justice standards. This comes amidst the conviction of more than a thousand children on...
