The Salvadoran justice system, under the control of President Nayib Bukele, has launched a series of mass trials against more than 80,000 people detained since the implementation of the state of exception in March 2022. This Friday, a San Salvador court initiated the...
The X account (formerly Twitter) Desaparecidos S.O.S El Salvador has reported at least eight deceased individuals found at various locations across the country during January 2026. One of the first cases was reported on January 5, when a body was discovered in a...
On January 21, roughly one hundred workers fired from the Rosales National Hospital gathered outside the Legislative Assembly to demand their severance pay after being terminated on December 23, 2025. A delegation of the dismissed workers entered the legislative...
Latin American progressive leaders are increasingly being backed into a corner on organized crime by pressure from the Trump administration and from their own voters, who point to the results from El Salvador president’s war on gangs. The hunger for a more...
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...
The Environmental Impact Study for the Ciudad Marsella construction project warned that the development’s northwest zone, located between Quartiers (districts) 10 and 11, presented a moderate-to-high environmental threat due to the probability of flooding....
