El Salvador

The US president signs trade agreements with Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala and Ecuador that ‘will bring prices down very quickly’ according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent

Human Rights Watch documented the mistreatment of 252 migrants that the Trump administration sent to El Salvador, and who were later released and returned to Caracas

Salvador Menéndez governs the municipality of La Paz Oeste and is a member of the party through which El Salvador’s president came to power in 2019

The agency’s covert operations, which Trump confirmed last week, hark back to the coups, assassination attempts and insurgencies supported or carried out by Washington in the region during the 20th century

The attorney fears the political use of justice and the erosion of rights in the country, while personally facing a motion that could affect his career

The United States, which has designated the gang as a terrorist organization, will support polygraph interrogations to identify those responsible for the jail break

Family members of three Salvadorans who were sent from the United States on the same flights as hundreds of Venezuelans, accused without evidence of being gang members, have gone six months without any information about them

A previously unknown report alleges that the president of El Salvador cultivated a close relationship with the former US ambassador to the country and current representative in Mexico, Ronald D. Johnson, and asked him to fire a contractor who was helping to investigate senior Salvadoran officials

The families of the two hospitalized victims and the deceased face silence from the Trump administration, which is using the attack to justify its domestic military deployment

On the outskirts of San Salvador, a real estate company is threatening to evict the residents of the Primero de Diciembre neighborhood. This pattern is playing out across the country amid a rapid wave of land privatization and gentrification

In an interview with EL PAÍS, the politician describes the state of political resistance, denounces harassment, and shares her fears about living in a country without judicial guarantees

New legislative reforms join other tough measures against any suspected gang member approved during over three years of the emergency regime in El Salvador

The US government has revived the idea of deporting the Salvadoran back to his country, where he previously suffered torture

The Trump administration is concealing the identity and fate of those deported. Advocates claim the deportations are illegal because no attempt was made to return them to their countries of origin

The government has instigated a tightening of rules of conduct as part of the war against gangs

The lawyers of the detainee — who became a symbol of Trump’s deportation policy after being mistakenly deported to his country last March — fear he could be sent to Uganda or Costa Rica

The Venezuelan stylist, one of the 252 men deported by the United States to a third nation for the first time, is trying to rebuild his life after four months of detention

The annual report criticizes Germany for its laws against far-right speech and refrains from censuring Israel’s actions in Gaza

Rwanda is the latest nation to accept citizens of other nationalities amid allegations of repression and torture at Trump’s chosen destinations

The State Department supports the measure taken by El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly, loyal to the president, which allows Washington’s main ally in Central America to remain in power

The constitutional reform that allows for indefinite re-election in El Salvador is just the president’s most recent move to cling to office

The reform, endorsed by a Legislative Assembly loyal to the president, modifies the foundations of El Salvador’s electoral rules

Although there are only about 600 judges for the more than three million cases stalled in immigration courts, the administration has sent home around 50

The artist recounts the beatings he endured, some for daring to sing, during the four months he was imprisoned in El Salvador’s Cecot

He became an activist after retiring in 2015, developing and perfecting a system to independently account for deportation planes. He is now passing the baton to a non-profit that will continue his work

Dahud Hanid Ortiz was serving a 30-year sentence for a triple crime he committed in Spain in 2016. After repatriating him, the Trump administration let him go