“On one occasion, my husband was patient number nine, and they ran out of hydrogen peroxide. I had to go to a private pharmacy to buy a bottle, and they suggested that for his next dressing changes I should come prepared with gauze, medical tape, and the cream,”...
Former Attorney General of the Republic, Luis Antonio Martínez González, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the crimes of procedural fraud and failure to investigate in the case known as Rais-Martínez. The sentence was handed down this Friday by the Tribunal...
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was released from criminal custody in Tennessee on Friday, the latest development in a dramatic legal saga surrounding the wrongly deported Maryland father of three. This marks the first time he has not been imprisoned since the Trump...
“We anticipate that the solidarity fund of the defined-contribution pension system will exhaust its reserves within our forecast horizon,” states the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P Global) in its latest report on El Salvador, which updated the...
Authoritarianism is advancing at breakneck speed in the country, and, predictably, as it has escalated, fear among the population has grown. For many people, that is the price to pay for security, a vital good denied to them for decades. They know rights are being...
The renowned organization Cristosal warned that the State of El Salvador is turning pretrial detention into “anticipatory punishment.” This follows the Legislative Assembly—dominated by the ruling Nuevas Ideas (NI) party—amending a law to extend by an...
