The president of the Cámara Agropecuaria y Agroindustrial de El Salvador (Agricultural and Agro-industrial Chamber of El Salvador, CAMPO), Luis Treminio, confirmed on Thursday that the supply of domestically grown beans was depleted in June and that markets are now...
Ángel Flores and César Benedetto Sánchez—members of the Movimiento por la Defensa de los Derechos de la Clase Trabajadora (Movement for the Defense of Working-Class Rights, MDCT) and the Confraternidad de Defensores y Defensoras de Derechos Humanos de América Latina...
“With the last breath God allows me I will keep denouncing the arbitrary acts of the Salvadoran State—specifically those of the dictator Nayib Bukele—for as long and as far as I can,” declared Ingrid Escobar, director of Socorro Jurídico Humanitario (Legal...
I believe I have studied the gang phenomenon long enough—far too many years, in fact—to assert that this interview with Gustavo Villatoro, Security Minister in President Nayib Bukele’s government, contains genuinely new and thought-provoking information, particularly...
Karen Valladares, Cristosal’s coordinator in Honduras, states that the Salvadoran government is waging a systematic crackdown on human-rights defenders, journalists, and civil-society organizations—a campaign already rippling through the region. On Sunday, 22 June,...
Eviction, for downtown street vendors here, was no surprise. It was a sentence they’d been waiting for. Maritza Trejo first heard the rumors three years ago. As a safeguard, she managed to rent a place that she used as a warehouse for her merchandise. But it was still...
