Over the last weekend in March, 2022, a secret pact between the administration of Nayib Bukele and the gangs of El Salvador violently fell apart. In the ensuing 72 hours, the MS-13 gang assassinated 87 people. The Legislative Assembly, at Bukele’s order, responded by...
On the night of April 24, 2022, there were at least 18 arrests in Bajo Lempa, Usulután. These were peasants, merchants, mothers and fathers, children and grandchildren, whom the Police found sleeping or about to fall asleep, but the police version asserts that they...
Neftaly Rivera Navarro, 64, is one of two US-Salvadoran citizens who disappeared in March this year. José Tomás Laínez, 54, is the second. The first one has already been found, but dead. There is absolutely no information about Laínez. Rivera Navarro disappeared on...
On the afternoon of February 4th, as Salvadorans were voting in Presidential and legislative elections, a fifty-seven-year-old writer named Carlos Bucio Borja walked into a polling place near his home in the capital and began to read the constitution aloud. The...
A report by the Legal Humanitarian Aid organization denounces that during the two years of the state of exception in El Salvador, 26,250 people have been arbitrarily detained without having committed any crime, while 241 deaths have been recorded in prisons, including...
The General Prosecutor’s Office (FGR) carried out new seizures on lands belonging to former president Alfredo Cristiani, including the house of his daughter Claudia, sources from the Asset Forfeiture Fiscal Unit confirmed to Diario El Mundo. She reacted to the...
