Johana, a 24-year-old woman, was released from prison on November 22, after 309 days completely disconnected from her family and the outside world. The release came four weeks after InSight Crime published an investigation demonstrating that neither she nor her family...
Cristosal presented the first phase of the report “Civil Society on Alert: Research on Affections to the Right of Organization,” in which 71 organizations, associations, networks, and civil society collectives participated, revealing patterns of harassment...
Friends: It’s the same story again. Another 13-year-old girl, this time in Bosques del Río in Soyapango, was raped by a soldier, this time from the Parachute Battalion, assigned to secure this neighborhood. Again, the soldier’s comrades didn’t...
Nayib Bukele’s government is voracious in terms of spending: although this year it did not have to pay capital and interest on the pension debt of about $500 million, it has had to go into debt to function. Something that has been even easier since a majority of...
On the aforementioned October 31st, M. left her aunt’s house to go to a schoolmate’s house to lend her a notebook and catch up on her lessons, as she had missed several classes due to health issues. It was around 4:30 p.m. and the effects of Tropical Storm...
The rape of a 13-year-old girl on October 31st in the Bosques del Río neighborhood, in the municipality of Soyapango, brings the total known cases of sexual assault by members of the Armed Forces of El Salvador to three, including two victims of the same age. Despite...
