The news went almost unnoticed: at the end of January, the Salvadoran fantasy of using bitcoin as legal tender came to an end. Indeed, on Wednesday, January 29, El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly modified the law that had authorized the adoption of bitcoin as legal...
Three people who were being held at the Izalco Penitentiary Center, in the department of Sonsonate, have died in recent hours while admitted to Jorge Mazzini Hospital. One of the inmates was identified as Danilo Ernesto Andrés López, who was from Olocuilta, according...
The family and attorneys of Eugenio Chicas, former president of the Tribunal Supremo Electoral (TSE) (Supreme Electoral Tribunal) and former official in the FMLN administration, have voiced their concern about his health after he was arrested on Thursday, February 13,...
The reform to the Ley Penal Juvenil (Juvenile Criminal Law), which allows sending adolescents to adult detention centers, violates national laws and international guarantees for minors, warns the human rights organization Cristosal. This Wednesday, the Asamblea...
Six minutes after the FGR announced on Twitter that Chicas had been arrested for illicit enrichment, President Nayib Bukele replied to the tweet with four words: “Guerra contra la corrupción” (“War against corruption”). Three minutes earlier, Steffany Ayala, Chicas’s...
The arrest of the former president of the Tribunal Supremo Electoral (Supreme Electoral Tribunal, TSE), Eugenio Chicas, is clearly abusive, arbitrary, and illegal. The pretext for detaining him is a civil lawsuit for alleged illicit enrichment, meaning it is not a...
