Residents of San Isidro, in western Cabañas, confirmed that a group of at least five Peruvians toured the area in 2021 and 2022, providing donations and undertaking projects in the communities under the guise of social support. However, what they were really seeking...
The news went almost unnoticed: at the end of January, the Salvadoran fantasy of using bitcoin as legal tender came to an end. Indeed, on Wednesday, January 29, El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly modified the law that had authorized the adoption of bitcoin as legal...
Three people who were being held at the Izalco Penitentiary Center, in the department of Sonsonate, have died in recent hours while admitted to Jorge Mazzini Hospital. One of the inmates was identified as Danilo Ernesto Andrés López, who was from Olocuilta, according...
The family and attorneys of Eugenio Chicas, former president of the Tribunal Supremo Electoral (TSE) (Supreme Electoral Tribunal) and former official in the FMLN administration, have voiced their concern about his health after he was arrested on Thursday, February 13,...
The reform to the Ley Penal Juvenil (Juvenile Criminal Law), which allows sending adolescents to adult detention centers, violates national laws and international guarantees for minors, warns the human rights organization Cristosal. This Wednesday, the Asamblea...
Six minutes after the FGR announced on Twitter that Chicas had been arrested for illicit enrichment, President Nayib Bukele replied to the tweet with four words: “Guerra contra la corrupción” (“War against corruption”). Three minutes earlier, Steffany Ayala, Chicas’s...
