On Saturday, September 23, Dinora (name changed to protect the minor) accompanied her parents to visit friends in a hamlet in Teotepeque, department of La Libertad. In the afternoon, along with three other young people, they decided to go to the beach in the Mizata...
Residents of the Las Flores neighborhood in San Francisco Gotera are disheartened when asked about “Juancito,” as Juan de Jesús Orellana was known, because his death has moved everyone. “We all joined the procession to the cemetery,” said a...
Juan José feared approaching his cellmate in the Izalco Prison in El Salvador. The screams of the other inmate terrified him. And the worst part, he says, is that the screams didn’t stop for days: the man complained of pain in his stomach and lower abdomen,...
The Mara Salvatrucha (MS13), Barrio 18 Sureños, and Barrio 18 Revolucionarios still maintain 54 armed groups, mostly in rural areas. Nearly 43,000 people who have been profiled as gang members remain at large. These people have been classified into three categories:...
The European Union (EU) urged El Salvador on Thursday to end the state of emergency declared due to gang violence and to move towards “normality,” insisting that the measure should not undermine human rights. “We have always insisted that the...
The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, met this Tuesday, September 19, with Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Denis Moncada, who, according to official media, “conveyed fraternal greetings” from Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. The meeting between the...
