New evidence of the close relationship between Presidential Designee Claudia Juana Rodríguez de Guevara and Nayib Bukele is that, in 2011, when he stepped down as president of an ad agency to run for mayor of Nuevo Cuscatlán, she took his place at the company....
On February 26, 2020, the previous Legislative Assembly approved the Special Law on Transitional Justice, Reparation, and National Reconciliation. Two days later, President Nayib Bukele announced that he had vetoed it, arguing that it was...
Once again, the Government of El Salvador decided to abstain from the resolutions taken in international organizations, this time in the meeting of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS), held in Washington, in which it declared...
A total of 36,899 Salvadoran men and women have applied for refuge in Mexico until November 2023, according to statistics from the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance (COMAR). The count shows a monthly growth. In January, there were 562; in February, 1,111; in...
The Legal Humanitarian Aid counts 213 deaths in penal centers since the state of emergency began to date. Ingrid Escobar, a representative of that organization, assured that 60% showed signs of possible beatings and torture, 30% due to lack of medical treatment, and...
A top leader of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges filed by US federal prosecutors, marking the beginning of a case that may blow the lid off the El Salvador government’s secret negotiations with the gang. Élmer Canales Rivera, alias...
