It is mid-morning on November 6, and the street where María operates in the food section of the San Miguelito market in San Salvador stands empty. Seated on an old plastic chair—while arranging products on the table: toothpaste, deodorants, toothbrushes, and other...
The Ministry of Tourism (MITUR) will see a $17 million budget increase for the upcoming fiscal year, bolstering its tourism offerings, investment attraction, and public infrastructure improvements. During the Comisión de Hacienda (Finance Committee) review of the 2026...
On 29 October 2025, a hearing was held on their case, during which the defence requested alternative measures for Alejandro and José Ángel after presenting evidence of their ties to the community. The court rejected the measures, and they remain in pre-trial...
In every photograph of Alejandro, a light endures that refuses to dim. A tender, warm smile, brimming with humanity, persists even after months of confinement. Those expressions speak of a part of him convinced that he has done what is right: defending life, the land,...
Osiel Guevara was released nearly a year ago, on November 27, 2024, after serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence at the Juvenile Detention Center in Ilobasco. His father was notified to come pick him up, but half an hour after regaining his freedom, agents of the...
Mary Lawlor, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, denounced on Tuesday that El Salvador’s criminal justice system is being used to “silence” activists and lamented that a court refused to grant conditional release to...
