Afrodescendants arrived in the country during the colonial era, mainly as slaves brought from Africa through the port of Acajutla in 1523. Some historians, including Jorge Arias Gómez and Héctor Lindo Fuentes, have noted that this population contributed to the...
Funes, the first president elected under the banner of the FMLN, left at least six judicial processes pending for irregularities during his administration between 2009 and 2014. He accumulated two convictions amounting to up to 20 years in prison and faced four...
For the fourth time since 2010, the human rights situation in El Salvador was evaluated during the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) conducted by the UN Human Rights Council. The Salvadoran delegation, led by Yesenia Lozano, El Salvador’s ambassador to...
The U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has included El Salvador in his first official trip as the highest-ranking representative of U.S. diplomacy, according to Politico on Wednesday. The trip could take place next week. Rubio visited El Salvador in April 2023 to...
The former president of El Salvador, Mauricio Funes Cartagena, died on the night of January 21 in Managua at the age of 65. He had been under the protection of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo’s regime since fleeing his country in 2016. The Salvadoran justice...
Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal sentences, died late Tuesday. He was 65. Nicaragua’s Health Ministry said in a statement that Funes had died of a serious chronic illness. Funes...
