
Nayib Bukele’s route to erasing limits on power in El Salvador
With his candidacy for a third term already formalized, the promise of alternation goes up in smoke in a country where the Constitution is being rewritten to suit the president

With his candidacy for a third term already formalized, the promise of alternation goes up in smoke in a country where the Constitution is being rewritten to suit the president

Back in the 1980s, during the armed conflict that gripped El Salvador, Zacamil was the site of massacres. But today, dozens of artists are restoring the historic neighborhood with murals. The project aims to reclaim public spaces, rebuild the social fabric, and restore dignity to a devastated area

The presiding judge has given the Department of Justice until this Wednesday to provide further arguments on the case, which would be the first brought before a court created in 1996

As the presidential family expands its real estate empire, lax fiscal controls and suspect loans open the way for a new club of millionaires in the Central American country

The lawyer receives her sister after over 440 days in detention under judicial limbo

Right-wing governments are now in power in 12 countries in their various forms, as hardline security policies, rollbacks of women’s and minority rights, and alliances in Trump’s orbit gain ground

The first deployment of Colombians to the country, coordinated by the UAE, was in 2024, but the network has expanded and now includes contractors from countries such as El Salvador

Argentine experts will join identification efforts by using stable isotopes found in bodies and remains to understand which country or region they came from
Doctors, epidemiologists and surveillance systems have managed to contain flares of cholera, mpox and Marburg virus before they become international crises

Director Andrés Torres Checka and Mexican actress Eréndira Ibarra tell the story of the FMLN’s legendary station at a time when Bukele is imposing fierce historical revisionism

The pope’s latest symbolic rebuke to the president is appointing a Salvadoran who entered the country as an undocumented migrant as bishop

Human rights defenders criticize the process, calling it a judicial ‘shortcut’ that seeks convictions instead of establishing individual accountability

Justices will hear arguments for the cancellation of the humanitarian program for Haitians and Syrians. Its decision will affect Venezuelans, Salvadorans, and citizens of more than a dozen other countries
A leaked police report reveals abuses and attempts to cover up homicides during the fight against gangs in El Salvador

Trial opens against the leaders of MS-13, accused of rebellion and of ordering a massacre that triggered the country’s state of emergency

Internal intelligence documents reveal that 36% of those captured during the state of emergency were not profiled as criminals before the measure was implemented

The government criticized a report by international legal experts that warns of crimes against humanity in the Central American country and lashed out at human rights organizations: ‘Go to hell’

At least five prisoners remain cut off from all contact in Salvadoran jails, a year after the US president ordered their unprecedented expulsion as alleged gang members

The Salvadoran president has accepted multimillion-dollar donations from China for flagship projects while strengthening his alliance with Washington

Xiomara Castro imposed a state of emergency similar to El Salvador’s, restricting rights and deploying the army in the streets, but criminal groups control large areas of one of Central America’s most violent countries

The politician from the Central American country defends the president’s ‘strong leadership’ model and, despite criticism from the international media, asserts that ‘everywhere, they want a Bukele’

Over 50 migrants were transferred from Louisiana to the prison in December, believing they were being returned to Cuba. After several weeks stranded there, they were returned to the US and then deported to Havana

Every day, people who have died in the US arrive at La Aurora Airport in a final migratory journey surrounded by scams, injustices, bureaucracy, and the unwavering will of their families

The app shared a graph through its X account. According to a report from the learning tool, Spanish is the second most popular language in the world, behind only English

The Brazilian jurist begins his term as president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights focusing on three key areas: climate action, bringing the court closer to citizens, and expediting measures

According to the investigation, the president received nearly $3.3 million from companies linked to the Alba Petróleos consortium

The Central American country is under a state of emergency after a massacre of police officers that calls into question the state’s ability to deal with the violence of an army of 30,000 gang members