The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) notified El Salvador’s police (PNC) on April 15 that it had removed the red notice against former Salvadoran President Alfredo Cristiani and temporarily blocked the data of former Christian Democratic...
The human rights crisis has worsened and taken on new dimensions by unexpectedly drawing in the first lady. Bukele’s reaction was swift. He insists on conflating rights and justice with terrorism and insecurity, an unacceptable argument, except to his faithful....
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) gave El Salvador a low compliance rating regarding the 23 recommendations the body published in 2024 in the context of the state of exception and human rights violations by the Salvadoran state. This was the...
Environmentalists denounce the criminalization of resource defenders amid the advance of projects.They warn that sugarcane monoculture is harming biodiversity and land use.Residents of San Francisco Angulo say a landfill threatens water resources, public health, and...
El Salvador, a small country of just over six million people, has just marked four years under the state of exception. It’s not a dictatorship, at least not in form, because people still vote. But it looks a lot like one: constitutional guarantees are suspended,...
Walter Vladimir Sandoval, 25, was arrested on March 30, 2022, just five days after the start of the state of exception imposed by El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele. Four days later, on April 3, he was already dead: his body showed fractures and visible...
