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...
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%...
In El Salvador, three suspects have been found guilty of murdering four Dutch journalists that were working for IKON in 1982. All three were handed a prison sentence of 15 years, several Salvadorian media outlets reported, including the newspaper Diario El Salvador....
After 4:00 p.m. this Monday, June 2, the Fiscalía General de la República (Attorney General’s Office, FGR) filed formal charges against Ruth Eleonora López Alfaro with San Salvador’s Twelfth Peace Court, which was on duty. According to sources close to the...
