Avalon Constructores, a company incorporated in El Salvador in August 2023 by two Guatemalan businessmen-politicians, did not just secure seven school-reconstruction contracts worth more than $18.6 million. The DOM also granted the company roughly twenty...
At least 130 human rights defenders, journalists, and union leaders have been driven from El Salvador since 2020, civil society organizations denounced today during a hearing before the IACHR in which the Salvadoran state refused to participate. The public hearing,...
Andry José Hernández Romero, 32, returned to his hometown of Capacho Nuevo on Wednesday, where he was embraced by his parents and greeted by a crowd of neighbours who had prepared a celebratory meal in his honour. The emotional homecoming marked the end of a harrowing...
“Both El Salvador and the United States bear responsibility for the victims, and each must shoulder its share of that accountability. Under no circumstances may they wash their hands of the matter and leave the victims utterly unprotected.” This is one of...
The fiercest voices of dissent against President Nayib Bukele have long feared a widespread crackdown. They weathered police raids on their homes, watched their friends being thrown into jail and jumped between safe houses so they can stay in El Salvador. Then they...
In his work “Death in Wars and Conflicts in the 20th Century,” Professor Milton Leitenberg tallied those killings—of civilians, soldiers, and those deliberately driven to starve or imprisoned—at 231 million. The 75,000 deaths from El Salvador’s civil...
