The main association monitoring attacks on journalists in El Salvador has become the latest victim of the country’s controversial Foreign Agents Law. The Salvadoran Journalists Association (APES, for its acronym in Spanish) announced on Oct. 1 that it will go into...
Four years have passed since several organizations lodged a petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) over the removal of five justices from the Sala de lo Constitucional de la Corte Suprema de Justicia (Constitutional Chamber of the...
On September 2, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) declared a petition admissible against the Salvadoran State over the May 2021 removal of the justices of the Sala de lo Constitucional (Constitutional Chamber) of the Corte Suprema de Justicia...
‘There’s so much power in the wave,” says Australian pro-surfer Sally Fitzgibbons. “It’s like someone broke the tap and it’s just endless swell. I don’t know any other place in the world that’s this consistent.” As she speaks, Fitzgibbons watches surfers on the waves...
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has repeatedly claimed that El Salvador is now the safest country in the Western hemisphere. Indeed, homicide rates are lower than they have ever been since he declared a State of Exception in 2022, and consequently arrested over...
Natalia Raquel Bernal Gómez, a 21-year-old woman, was reported missing by her family on Friday, September 5, 2025. Her decomposing body was found four days later, on September 9, in Nuevo Cuscatlán, a district of La Libertad Este. Relatives of the victim stated they...
