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...
El Salvador’s Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman (PDDH), under the direction of Raquel Caballero de Guevara, has turned its back on individuals, collectives, and diverse sectors of the population seeking protection amid grave human rights violations stemming...
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele declared in an interview published this Monday (Dec. 29, 2025) with Spanish YouTuber David Cánovas Martínez, known as ‘The Grefg,’ that he would like to continue governing the Central American nation for...
Salvadoran photojournalist Diego Rosales, arrested Friday by Interpol in Seville, Spain, while seeking asylum, was released this Saturday, the EFE news agency confirmed. María Tardón, presiding judge of Central Investigating Court No. 3 at the Audiencia Nacional,...
The Twitter/X bio of El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, as of December 2025, reads “Philosopher King.” In the past, it read, “The world’s coolest dictator.” This unabashed public recognition of authoritarianism is unique. For example, even after the death of...
