It was nearly two in the afternoon when Katherine, four years old, arrived along with her mother and her seven-year-old sister at a house near the “Regalo de Dios” (Gift of God) school, located in a rural area of Ahuachapán. That house served as a meeting point for...
The State Department said Friday that Secretary of State Marco Rubio will use his visit to El Salvador next week to push officials there to agree to receive deported foreign nationals from countries that do not accept U.S. deportation flights. Special envoy to Latin...
Ronna Rísquez is an investigative journalist in Venezuela, and in 2023 she published the book titled “El Tren de Aragua, la banda que revolucionó el crimen organizado en América Latina” (“El Tren de Aragua, the gang that revolutionized organized crime in Latin...
The government of Nayib Bukele asked the Asamblea Legislativa (Legislative Assembly) for a reform to the Ley Penal Juvenil so that minors under provisional detention or serving prison sentences for crimes related to organized crime would be held in adult penitentiary...
The successive extensions of the state of exception, arbitrary arrests, and the humanitarian crisis inside prisons are the main concerns of a delegation from the País Vasco (Basque Country, a Spanish autonomous region) that visited El Salvador to learn about the human...
El Salvador now ranks first on the list of countries with the highest prison population per 100,000 inhabitants, according to World Prison Brief (WPB), a specialized statistical site on global security and prisons. WPB data places El Salvador at 1,659 prisoners per...
