They often say that no one dies a day before their time… though in Nayib Bukele’s El Salvador, it seems some deaths are so timely that they allow one to doubt the saying and lean towards thinking that someone is twisting destinies and hastening their ends....
William Duncan, the United States ambassador to El Salvador, announced yesterday on the social media of the diplomatic representation that his country will send a group of experts to assist in the investigation of the helicopter crash that occurred on the night of...
El Salvador became the bloodiest country in the Western world in 2015. Its murder rate eclipsed 100 homicides for every 100,000 inhabitants, a figure more characteristic of a failed state than a modern democracy. Not since the mid-1990s had the country been this...
Police Director-General Mauricio Arriaza was escorting a suspect in a multi-million-dollar fraud scheme to the capital, San Salvador, when the helicopter came down shortly after take-off. The suspect, fugitive former bank director Manuel Coto, had been accused of...
The Armed Forces of El Salvador (FAES) confirmed at 11:14 p.m. on Sunday, September 8, that a UH-1H aircraft from the Salvadoran Air Force crashed in Pasaquina, La Unión. On board were the director of the Policía Nacional Civil (PNC) (National Civil Police), Mauricio...
In a coordinated operation between the National Police of Honduras and the Public Ministry, the general manager of Cosavi, Manuel Alberto Coto Barrientos, was detained while being a fugitive with an INTERPOL red notice; the Salvadoran prosecution had reported his...
