Confidential due to trade secret. That is how the Dirección General de Energía, Hidrocarburos y Minas (DGEHM) (General Directorate of Energy, Hydrocarbons and Mines) classified the mining studies that Nayib Bukele claimed to possess in order to pave the way for the...
The Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman (PDDH) presented only eight items concerning human rights compliance by El Salvador in its report submitted in November 2024 for the EPU, which was held on January 20, 2025. This figure is merely half of the 15 issues mentioned...
Beginning in 2025, the Ministerio de Educación (Ministry of Education) has closed several schools throughout the country, eliminated additional stipends (for teaching two sections, for example), merged schools, and combined grade levels due to low enrollment that some...
Eighty-nine employees of the Procuraduría para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos (PDDH) (Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman) were dismissed between December 2024 and January 2025 without following due process, according to employees of this institution. The...
Vendors in the Historic Center of San Salvador clashed with members of the Cuerpo de Agentes Metropolitanos (CAM) (Metropolitan Agents Corps) due to the confiscation of merchandise by the agents, according to reports shared by citizens on various social media...
This Friday, January 24, the verdict is set to be handed down for more than thirty members of the extermination group “Paz o muerte (Peace or Death),” composed of police officers, soldiers, and civilians, almost all of whom lived in the same area where they operated...
