For decades, journalism has shaped El Salvador’s history, providing the public with information that guides everyday choices and the nation’s broader course. Today, however, reporters face harassment, stigmatization, and even criminalization—hazards that have...
Electoral expert Malcolm Cartagena, renowned for his role in the Centro de Monitoreo Político of Acción Ciudadana (Political Monitoring Center of Citizen Action), announced on Friday his forced departure from El Salvador, driven by deteriorating health and escalating...
The basic food basket (CBA) climbed by more than $4 in both rural and urban areas last June, according to the latest update from the National Office of Statistics and Censuses (Onec). The agency’s data show that the urban CBA surged from $248.22 in May to...
Two financiers of the UCN, a Guatemalan political party tied to the Sinaloa Cartel according to the United States Department of Justice, secured contracts from the Salvadoran government under President Nayib Bukele, as detailed in an investigative piece by journalist...
Avalon Constructores, a company incorporated in El Salvador in August 2023 by two Guatemalan businessmen-politicians, did not just secure seven school-reconstruction contracts worth more than $18.6 million. The DOM also granted the company roughly twenty...
At least 130 human rights defenders, journalists, and union leaders have been driven from El Salvador since 2020, civil society organizations denounced today during a hearing before the IACHR in which the Salvadoran state refused to participate. The public hearing,...
