The Colectivo Desaparecidos SOS (SOS Missing Persons Collective) warns that homicides and deaths under suspicious circumstances persisted across El Salvador throughout June, contradicting the government’s public-safety narrative. On 2 June, the body of a woman was...
Throughout the beginning of Nayib Bukele’s second presidential term, El Salvador has experienced an alarming increase in the harassment, persecution and criminalization of human rights defenders, journalists, activists, critical voices and civil society organizations....
On Monday, the influential U.S. outlet The New York Times published an in-depth investigation into the negotiations and pacts between President Nayib Bukele’s administration and the gangs, as well as the part played by several key officials. The story, titled “Trump...
Even among the brutal ranks of the transnational gang called MS-13, Vladimir Arévalo Chávez stands out as a highly effective manager of murder, prosecutors say. Known as “Vampiro,” he has been accused of overseeing killings in at least three countries: of migrants in...
Men with shaved heads, dressed in all-white outfits, walk in a single-file line into a large auditorium with their hands tied behind their backs. They are forced to kneel, then they are bound together in circular formation, facing away from one another. This haunting...
As he advances along the dimly lit street toward the stop, distant dogs bark and, now and then, a motorcycle shatters the silence. Even at this hour several people are already waiting. He is not alone. Thousands of Salvadorans from Soyapango, Ilopango, San Martín and...
