Two days before Óscar Martínez, editor-in-chief of El Faro, opened the Central American Journalism Forum (ForoCAP) in Costa Rica, an image emerged from El Salvador that may be the clearest illustration yet of what this journalist has been calling out for some time:...
The vehicle with Guatemalan license plate P0514JNW, used last Wednesday afternoon to transport attorney Ruth Eleonora López Alfaro from the Isidro Menéndez judicial center, belonged to a Guatemalan citizen. Sources familiar with the case, who requested anonymity for...
The prosecutor criminally pursuing Ruth López, a human rights defender and anti-corruption lawyer, is Berty Manuel Acevedo, son of the chief of the Estado Mayor Presidencial (Presidential General Staff, EMP), Manuel Antonio Acevedo López. The Presidential General...
San Salvador’s 12th Peace Court on Thursday ordered prominent lawyer and human rights defender Ruth López, arrested just over two weeks ago, to be remanded to pre-trial detention. Her trial has been ordered sealed at the request of the Attorney General’s...
The Twelfth Peace Court of San Salvador will hold the initial hearing this Wednesday against human rights defender and anti-corruption lawyer Ruth López. “They’ve requested a complete seal out of fear. What are they afraid of? Of having made a baseless accusation, of...
58.1% of Salvadorans disapprove of the work done by the mayors of the country’s 44 municipalities, according to the results of the latest survey by LPG Datos, the social research unit of LA PRENSA GRÁFICA. Only 35.7% express some level of approval, while 6.3%...
