After the Attorney General’s Office confirmed the arrest of Enrique Anaya, whom it accuses of alleged money laundering, Cristosal issued a statement on the matter. “His arrest comes amid a context of growing criminalization against people who have spoken...
Salvadoran constitutional lawyer Enrique Anaya, a staunch critic of President Nayib Bukele, was detained on Saturday (06/07/2025) on money laundering charges, the Attorney General’s Office reported, in what human rights organizations consider a crackdown aimed...
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...
In early May, the farming cooperative of El Bosque in Santa Tecla, one of El Salvador’s largest cities, received an eviction notice; a new battle in a decades-old fight for land. In response, community members organised a peaceful sit-in near hardline President Nayib...
