Heavy rains on Sunday afternoon triggered landslides, flooding, and washouts, disrupting mobility at key points across the Área Metropolitana de San Salvador and Santa Tecla. Below are the areas to avoid and guidance for safer travel. La Sabana Street and the Merliot...
On the fifth day since various communities in the San Salvador Metropolitan Area (AMSS) and Santa Tecla remain without water service, the government announced the arrival of a fleet of tanker trucks from Guatemala to bolster the emergency response. Although the exact...
This Thursday morning, residents in the San Antonio neighborhood in the district of Ayutuxtepeque, and from Volcán and El Bambú streets in Mejicanos, waited for more than an hour to fill containers with water from the ANDA tank located in the area. Residents from...
The National Administration of Aqueducts and Sewerage (ANDA) reported that service will remain suspended for at least three more days while new repairs are made to the damaged infrastructure. The interruption continues after a 48-inch high-pressure pipeline supplying...
Police in El Salvador arbitrarily arrested two human rights defenders who were peacefully protesting a mass eviction and have been holding them in pretrial detention since the end of May 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch has reviewed videos and...
In the right direction on Central America, the Trump Administration has issued a directive—a new sanctions instrument—to designate collaborators of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Oddly enough, the first individual sanctioned in April was former Costa Rican...
