“Punishments, torture, and death: the voices of survivors recounting the terror in Nayib Bukele’s prisons — Castigos, tortura y muerte: las voces de los sobrevivientes que relatan el terror en las cárceles de Nayib Bukele

05/15/2023

José Zavaleta still finds it hard to remember. “For God’s sake, for God’s sake, for God’s sake…” he exclaims several times during the account, bringing him back to the weeks he was in jail on accusations of illicit...

Government purchased $4.6 million worth of food during pandemic from ‘smuggler’ profiled by police — Gobierno compró $4.6 millones de alimentos en pandemia a ‘contrabandista’ perfilado por la PNC

05/09/2023

Luis Reynaldo Márquez Castaneda is the owner of Logix, a transport company that the Ministry of Agriculture, then led by Pablo Anliker, paid $4.6 million in exchange for 185,000 food baskets on May 2, 2020, nearly three months after the COVID-19 pandemic began. The...

Massive rejection of abuses and Bukele’s re-election — Multitudinario rechazo a abusos y reelección de Bukele

05/02/2023

Despite police checkpoints blocking them at different access points to San Salvador, thousands of workers and union members marched on International Workers’ Day to speak out against government abuses, the re-election of President Nayib Bukele, and to demand the...

El Salvador Police Profiled Vice Minister Osiris Luna as Drug Trade Operative — Inteligencia Policial del actual Gobierno perfila a Osiris Luna como un delincuente

04/26/2023

The National Civil Police opened an investigation into Vice Minister of Security Osiris Luna Meza after the publication of pictures in November, 2019, of Luna on a private jet, purportedly while traveling in Mexico to meet with possible security contractors. In an...

Organizations warn UN about alleged clandestine graves in prisons — Organizaciones advierten a ONU sobre presuntas fosas clandestinas en cárceles

04/13/2023

Five human rights organizations presented a report on deaths under state custody in El Salvador’s prisons during the state of exception to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions, Morris Tidball-Binz. In the...

Abuses in Bukele’s prisons: “They beat him to death in the cell and dragged him out like an animal” — Los abusos en las cárceles de Bukele: “Lo mataron a golpes en la celda y lo sacaron a rastras como a un animal”

03/27/2023

Both saw people die in their cells; both were tortured and spent months in overcrowded prisons with little food and no legal assistance. Two testimonies collected by EL PAÍS from people detained during the state of exception, which supports the war against gangs by...