Andry José Hernández Romero, 32, returned to his hometown of Capacho Nuevo on Wednesday, where he was embraced by his parents and greeted by a crowd of neighbours who had prepared a celebratory meal in his honour. The emotional homecoming marked the end of a harrowing...
“Both El Salvador and the United States bear responsibility for the victims, and each must shoulder its share of that accountability. Under no circumstances may they wash their hands of the matter and leave the victims utterly unprotected.” This is one of...
The fiercest voices of dissent against President Nayib Bukele have long feared a widespread crackdown. They weathered police raids on their homes, watched their friends being thrown into jail and jumped between safe houses so they can stay in El Salvador. Then they...
In his work “Death in Wars and Conflicts in the 20th Century,” Professor Milton Leitenberg tallied those killings—of civilians, soldiers, and those deliberately driven to starve or imprisoned—at 231 million. The 75,000 deaths from El Salvador’s civil...
The organization Socorro Jurídico Humanitario (Legal Humanitarian Aid, SJH) announced on its social media channels that from the onset of the state of exception on March 27, 2022, through Sunday, July 20, 2025, it has documented a total of 430 deaths among individuals...
The U.S. State Department has now declassified (from the level of “confidential”) and publicly released the text of three documents pertaining to the “dirty deal” between the United States and El Salvador for the transfer and indefinite detention of alleged members of...
