On the night of Saturday, January 10, at least 20 homes in the “Ciudad Marsella Phase Two” development flooded. This caused irreparable damage to appliances, furniture, and vehicles. For several of the affected families, the losses amounted to absolutely...
There are moments in a nation’s history that illuminate what seemed condemned to silence. They do not arrive by decree of those in power, but through the unyielding force of those who never ceased seeking justice. That those responsible for the El Mozote...
Owing to their obsolescence and scant depth, these usurpers prove doubly finite. Spanish dictionaries define a usurper as one who seizes—typically through violence—a right or property that legitimately belongs to another. This definition aptly identifies those who...
Beyond the dismantling of the gangs—a development with significant caveats that I personally regard as a “cruel achievement”—the Salvadoran reality is best defined as a “multidimensional crisis.” This crisis is marked by the deepening and worsening of myriad economic,...
The institutions comprising the expanded security cabinet convened a press conference last Monday to present the 2025 security report. At the event, officials leading the Ministry of Security, the Attorney General’s Office, and the Armed Forces unveiled their...
On December 17, 2025, a local court released lawyer Alejandro Henríquez and pastor José Ángel Pérez. Seven months earlier, the two activists had been arbitrarily detained under El Salvador’s state of emergency and charged with public disorder and aggressive...
