In 2025, the State Intelligence Agency (OIE) spent $63 million on its operations, a figure 42 times greater than the original budget approved by the Legislative Assembly, which was just $1.5 million, according to the “demonstrative statement of budget execution...
San Salvador (EFE) — The deaths of at least five more people bring the number of fatalities in various prisons in El Salvador to approximately 517 following their detentions under the state of exception, in effect since March 2022 to combat gangs, according to a...
The U.S. government withdrew the nomination of Troy Edgar as ambassador to El Salvador, a decision communicated on April 13 through the official White House website and in the list of nominations sent to the Senate, ending the process initiated on January 29, 2026,...
PBS FRONTLINE premiered “The Deal: Trump, Bukele & the Gangs of El Salvador” on April 7 at 10 p.m. ET. On its documentary page and video listing, PBS describes the film as an examination of Bukele’s deal with Trump to imprison U.S. deportees and...
Her ordeal began with stomach cramps; 19 years old and training to be a nurse, she knew something was wrong. At the hospital she waited for hours in the emergency department. She had suffered an obstetric emergency. Under El Salvador’s legal framework,...
Team WOLA Since its implementation in March 2022, the regime has led to the mass detention of more than 91,000 people, many of them without warrants or sufficient evidence, in a context of serious violations of due process. Both national and international...
