There are governments that imprison people. There are others that try to imprison ideas. In El Salvador, something even more serious is happening: an attempt is being made to imprison the very possibility of the working class organizing independently once again. That...
The Salvadoran State, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, could intervene in the situation currently facing ten compatriots in Russia, where they remain missing after being taken to that country and...
Servindi, July 29, 2026 — The chronicle “El exilio nos alcanza” won one of the awards given by the Gabo Foundation, highlighting the Nayib Bukele government’s pressure on freedom of expression and journalists in El Salvador. The chronicle, written by...
It’s Sunday, June 7, and it’s almost 10 in the morning. I’m in some plaza in a city in southern Spain. I order a manchado, as they usually call coffee with milk here, at the bar across the way. While I wait at a table for my order, there’s a...
Violence is usually imagined as an explosion: the gunshot of a war, a physical assault, or the toll of a bloody crime. Central American history, however, shows that its deepest and most enduring mechanisms operate far more quietly. At the closing session of the 17th...
On Tuesday, the Medical Association of El Salvador (Colmedes) called the Ministry of Labor’s announcement on severance payments for workers fired from the Hospital Nacional Rosales a step forward, though it called for the process to be extended to all dismissed...
