Systematic detentions without evidence, people who, after being released by judicial order, are arrested again upon leaving the prison gates, crowded cells with barely any water or food, beatings by guards, electric shocks, deaths in prison by strangulation,...
The IMF has requested that El Salvador move away from the cycle of exponential debt that has put the country’s finances at risk for years. The IMF and the Salvadoran government have been in talks for three and a half years over a potential $1.3 billion financing...
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) has published the report State of Exception and Human Rights in El Salvador, which examines the state of exception declared in El Salvador since 2022 and its impacts on human rights. The report outlines the...
If past actions are any indication of what’s to come, the scenario boils down to this: Donald Trump will care little about the region as long as its presidents pay him the required homage and align with draconian immigration policies. However, today it seems...
Although Costa Rica recognized Beijing as its diplomatic partner in 2007, the regional rush towards China began with Panama in 2017, followed by El Salvador in 2018, Nicaragua in 2021, and Honduras in 2023. The approaches of Central American nations and the...
On May 2, 2023, the Press Secretary notified the termination of services for about 150 employees because the Salvadoran Presidential House ran out of funds to maintain salaries ranging from $800 to $2,000 per month. Many of these workers, however, did not even have...
