Nelson Alexander Calles Pérez lived most of his life in territory controlled by the Mara Salvatrucha-13 gang: the La Sierpe neighborhood in Chalatenango, home to the Sierpeños Locos Salvatruchos, a group with over a hundred members, according to a decade of police...
Environmental journalism is subject to harassment and intimidation in Nayib Bukele’s El Salvador, a government considered a “model” in Latin America for its security outcomes, but which also targets journalism that questions it. This is the case for...
The 2025 draft budget envisions a reduction of more than $45 million in the funds for paying the salaries of teachers hired by the Ministry of Education (MINED), even though the number of positions would remain unchanged. The proposal submitted to the Legislative...
On Wednesday, October 30th, two news stories were among the most read on Costa Rican news portals: a ten-month-old baby is killed by a hitman, and Rodrigo Chaves will receive his neighbor Nayib Bukele “with all honors” despite hesitations from other...
“If my son has to be a martyr for this to end, then he will have to be.” Ivania Cruz (El Salvador, 31 years old) received this response from her mother three years ago when she began defending her brother Ever Stanley Cruz, one of the first political...
The cloudy sky foretold a rainy day. It was early on the morning of Wednesday, October 2, 2024, when the phone rang at the southern delegation of the National Civil Police (PNC) in Chalatenango. Minutes later, a group of officers set off for The Majestic, a hotel...
