For four decades El Salvador was known for death squads and civil war, and then for gang violence. But now, under President Nayib Bukele, the gangs that carved up the country have been routed. The members of the pandillas – the two main gangs were Mara...
Catalino Miranda, a former public transport businessman, is gravely ill, according to medical and judicial reports obtained by Revista Elementos. His relatives, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, stated that they were notified by the Zacamil National Hospital,...
The human rights organization Fundación de Estudios para la Aplicación del Derecho (Foundation for Studies in the Application of Law, Fespad) announced on Thursday it is shutting down its operations in El Salvador after nearly 37 years, due to the “legal...
Nayib Bukele’s government locked in El Salvador’s militarization in June 2019, and implementation began a month later, when the Plan Control Territorial (Territorial Control Plan, PCT) was launched, a security policy sold as the solution to gangs but that, in...
“Attempting to return to my country,” reads the description of his current location on his personal account on the social network X. Born in El Salvador in 1983, investigative journalist and editor-in-chief of the award-winning digital newspaper El Faro, Óscar...
Forty specialists from Rosales National Hospital have resigned their posts over the last two months, up to August 29, according to three physicians from the hospital, another who previously worked there, and a fifth who works in an administrative role at the Ministry...
