This October will mark four years since the government announced in 2021 the construction of three overpasses in San Miguel, through the Ministry of Public Works (MOP), projects that have yet to break ground. President Nayib Bukele promised the projects during the...
The portion of the El Espino estate conveyed by the State for construction of the new Centro Internacional de Ferias y Convenciones (International Center for Fairs and Conventions, CIFCO) consists of a shade-grown coffee forest in a high state of conservation and lies...
The annual report submitted by the Ministry of Security to the Legislative Assembly, covering the period from June 2024 to May 2025, contradicts the figures for alleged gang members arrested under the state of exception that the Executive itself has cited in its...
The recent elimination of presidential term limits in El Salvador lays bare an autocratic project. Where checks and balances give way, the leader no longer governs within the law: the law bends to serve the leader. Nayib Bukele, hailed by his followers as the surgeon...
For nearly half a century, the State Department has reported annually on human-rights conditions in countries around the world. The purpose of this exercise is not to cast aspersions, but to collect and disseminate reliable information. Congress mandated the reports...
The State Department on Tuesday released an annual collection of reports on human rights records in nearly 200 nations, but left out language on persistent abuses in many nations that was present in prior reports. The omissions were another sign of the Trump...
