In a quiet church courtyard in El Rosario, El Salvador, 16-year-old Sarita sits beside her grandmother. From her neck hangs a medallion, its golden face flashing against the starchy white fabric of her school uniform. “It’s a chain of Saint Benedict,” she says. “I...
Nayib Bukele’s government has renewed its controversial state of exception 48 times, with the promise not to stop until the last gang member in El Salvador is captured. However, official data reveal a significant gap: although intelligence reports identified...
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...
Nayib Bukele’s government insists, time and again, that in El Salvador there is no persecution and no arrest warrants against journalists. That is what Vice President Félix Ulloa told ABC a few weeks ago during an interview in Madrid. A claim that is...
Its director, Alberto Velázquez, says the decision stems from a recommendation by the Ministry of the Interior to the apostolic nuncio, Monsignor Luigi Roberto Cona. Velázquez maintains that the organization never engaged in partisan politics and that its work focused...
The priest also addressed the broad scope of the term “terrorist” cited in the constitutional reform to Article 27 carried out by the Legislative Assembly, as the term is very dangerous in El Salvador, given that a state of exception remains in effect. In...
