Inhabitants of the upper area of El Barrial canton, in Los Planes de Renderos, complain that they have gone five years without receiving drinking water through the pipes and must buy it to cover their basic needs. The families are asking the mayor of San Salvador Sur,...
Peruvian President Keiko Fujimori announced this Thursday in El Salvador that she will build new prisons inspired by Nayib Bukele’s iron-fist model and that she intends to adopt some of his severe measures for isolating and controlling inmates. The announcement came...
Former President Elías Antonio Saca appeared this Thursday, October 29, before the Second Penitentiary Oversight Court, at the Isidro Menéndez Judicial Center, to file a formal notice regarding his release after serving a 10-year sentence. Upon his arrival at the...
This week, Peruvian President Keiko Fujimori is visiting El Salvador to learn first-hand about the security model promoted by Nayib Bukele against gang violence. The paradox is that the Salvadoran government could also learn from the Peruvian experience: during the...
As in the country itself, the Salvadoran diaspora faces a progressive aging of its first generation, according to the Human Development Notebook prepared by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the...
In the context of the 197th Period of Sessions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), civil society organizations and authorities of the Commission addressed the situation of the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman (PDDH), within the framework of...
