Every summer, Santos Díaz’s family and 18 other families that make up the El Rescate community must ration water for drinking and cooking. In winter, they rely on rainwater stored in tanks that, in the last century, were used to hold coffee and water for agricultural...
Metal mining has historically been a threat to the environment, water, and the health of communities. In El Salvador, a small country with very limited water resources, the reactivation of the mining industry poses an imminent danger. For this reason, communities are...
The names of Danilo Ernesto Andrés López, José Miguel Duarte Zetino, and Edemir Lemus Quintanilla were added over the weekend to the list of inmates who have died during the state of exception, the security measure the government of El Salvador has implemented since...
Ninety percent of the physicians who have resigned from the Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social (ISSS) (Salvadoran Social Security Institute) are specialists and sub-specialists, said yesterday the secretary general of the Sindicato de Médicos Trabajadores del...
The detention of Eugenio Chicas Martínez, a former magistrate of the Tribunal Supremo Electoral (TSE) (Supreme Electoral Tribunal) and a former member of the FMLN party’s Political Commission, has generated reactions both nationally and internationally. The American...
The family of Eugenio Chicas, former presiding magistrate of the Tribunal Supremo Electoral (TSE) (Supreme Electoral Tribunal), issued a statement in which they described his recent detention as “illegal” and part of a “political vendetta.” “We believe that his arrest...
