The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) has published the report State of Exception and Human Rights in El Salvador, which examines the state of exception declared in El Salvador since 2022 and its impacts on human rights. The report outlines the...
If past actions are any indication of what’s to come, the scenario boils down to this: Donald Trump will care little about the region as long as its presidents pay him the required homage and align with draconian immigration policies. However, today it seems...
Although Costa Rica recognized Beijing as its diplomatic partner in 2007, the regional rush towards China began with Panama in 2017, followed by El Salvador in 2018, Nicaragua in 2021, and Honduras in 2023. The approaches of Central American nations and the...
On May 2, 2023, the Press Secretary notified the termination of services for about 150 employees because the Salvadoran Presidential House ran out of funds to maintain salaries ranging from $800 to $2,000 per month. Many of these workers, however, did not even have...
Environmental organizations and defenders of indigenous rights have denounced the allegedly arbitrary arrest of indigenous defender José Iván Arévalo Gómez, 35, a member of the Movimiento de víctimas y afectados por el cambio climático y corporaciones (Moviac) and of...
Outside of El Salvador, the efforts of searching parents are largely unknown. They regularly walk the streets and paths of the Central American country searching for clues and posting flyers with the names of their missing loved ones on every possible tree, pole, and...
