Six minutes after the FGR announced on Twitter that Chicas had been arrested for illicit enrichment, President Nayib Bukele replied to the tweet with four words: “Guerra contra la corrupción” (“War against corruption”). Three minutes earlier, Steffany Ayala, Chicas’s...
The arrest of the former president of the Tribunal Supremo Electoral (Supreme Electoral Tribunal, TSE), Eugenio Chicas, is clearly abusive, arbitrary, and illegal. The pretext for detaining him is a civil lawsuit for alleged illicit enrichment, meaning it is not a...
May 2023. President Nayib Bukele had been in office for four years, and there were four months left before he would announce his bid for an unconstitutional reelection. The World Health Organization (WHO) put an end to the global COVID-19 alert, and Donald Trump, the...
Several complaints on social media from parents and high school students indicated that in 2025, the school kits only included between four and six thin notebooks, without pencils or other items that had been included in previous years. In response, the teacher unions...
More than 500 students from the Complejo Educativo Jorge Lardé (Jorge Lardé Educational Complex), located in the cantón Las Higueras in Izalco, Sonsonate Este, began the school year for the second time in a row taking classes in two multi-purpose tents and provisional...
On February 13, 2025, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the United Nations Population Fund, all part of the United Nations Organization, expressed...
