In November 2022, a man in El Salvador believed he had few options: be snatched off the street by police or testify against Massachusetts members of MS-13, the criminal organization responsible for countless murders and other violent crimes in the U.S. and Central...
United States President Donald Trump said on Friday that his administration would examine terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Salvadorans, but he provided no further details. When asked why he had not yet revoked the program for the Central American...
The flow of people entering El Salvador—whether by land, sea, or air—fell during the first three months of the year, according to the General Directorate of Migration and Immigration. Between January and March of last year, a total of 1,843,433 travelers crossed the...
Citizen Action (Acción Ciudadana) reported on Thursday that agents of the National Civil Police (PNC) carried out “unusual activity” at the residence of Malcolm Cartagena, who heads the organisation’s political-monitoring centre. “On Wednesday, 25 June, in the morning...
The Association of Journalists of El Salvador (Asociación de Periodistas de El Salvador, APES) raised the alarm on 25 June 2025 over yet another instance of police harassment targeting a member of the press. This time the complaint involves journalist Guillermo...
The legal team representing environmental attorney Alejandro Henríquez and pastor and community leader José Ángel Pérez filed a habeas corpus petition on Wednesday with the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ), seeking to overturn the...
