The Asociación de Periodistas de El Salvador (APES) recorded 789 attacks against the press during 2024, more than double the 311 documented in 2023. The data is part of the report the association is presenting today in the framework of Press Freedom Day, commemorated...
When President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador met with business leaders from across Latin America in February to encourage investment, he said he was hoping that an “economic miracle” in the country would eclipse the “security miracle” that his administration is known...
In the days before ICE agents arrested 22-year-old Ángel Blanco Marin, he was visiting his friend Fabian Olmos in New Jersey. The two singers had grown up with each other in Venezuela, and now in Olmos’ garage, they began rehearsing a song, and filming a music video....
The tiny neighborhood of Los Nogales, with its pinkish-red bougainvilleas and a small knot of streets rising above El Salvador’s capital, seems cut off from the sprawling city below. Senda 3, a cul-de-sac at the heart of the neighborhood, dead-ends into bushes and...
The director of the digital newspaper El Faro revealed this Saturday afternoon that they have information that the Fiscalía General de la República (Attorney General’s Office, FGR) is preparing arrest warrants against journalists from the outlet, following...
The director of El Faro, Carlos Dada, warned this Saturday that the Attorney General’s Office of El Salvador is “preparing arrest warrants” for journalists from the outlet who worked on an interview, published this week, with a gang leader who claims that Nayib...
