El Salvador

The Salvadoran president’s announcement of a plan to release thousands of prisoners who were jailed during the state of emergency comes too late for the families. Their relatives have been scarred by torture, mass trials and years of imprisonment

After ending the temporary protection program for 13 countries, the government has not cancelled it for Ukrainians and Sudanese, who now remain in limbo

‘I think the devil got into him,’ says the hairdresser Celia Salmerón, one of the voters who will change her choice in the midterms

A report by the organization Derechos Digitales has documented more than 100 cybersecurity violations over the course of a year

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals is holding a hearing this Tuesday to determine whether the government defied the judge who ordered the return of the planes transporting migrants in March 2025

A judge temporarily blocked the deportation order for Venezuelan Wilber Garcés, who will appear at an immigration hearing on September 30

A court found that David Eduardo Mejía Martínez did not belong to the Mara Salvatrucha nor did he pose a danger to society

EL PAÍS spoke with a dozen migrants from Cuba, Honduras, Brazil and Colombia who were sent by the US to Africa and remain in a legal limbo with scant medical assistance and no knowledge of what will happen to them

President Nayib Bukele claims that years of gang violence have left 80,000 people missing. However, the Legislative Assembly has rejected a proposed bill centered around the search for the disappeared, leaving families feeling helpless

The 170,000 beneficiaries can remain in the United States, but uncertainty persists as the government says it will make a decision ‘at the appropriate time’

On September 9, Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador expires and the Trump administration has not proposed renewing it

Around 170,000 Salvadorans will lose protection from deportation on September 9

Chronic kidney disease was long thought to be an old person’s malady. Now it’s a multinational health crisis among young Latino migrants who once worked on Central American farms and sugar plantations. To avoid expensive treatment in the United States, many return home, only to discover limited care for the deadly illness

As Trump and the Supreme Court dismantle the system that protected millions of immigrant families who fled danger, children wonder: Will we be next

An indictment by Salvadoran prosecutors reveals the discovery of more than 20 clandestine graves in Nuevo Cuscatlán, the town the president once held up as a model of public safety during his time as mayor

Sweden will pay over $35 million a year to Estonia to house hundreds of its prisoners. Other countries on the continent are considering similar deals

Eight crew members from the vessel ‘Fiorella’ remain unaccounted for months after setting sail from the Pacific coast of Ecuador

The election of Abelardo de la Espriella as Colombia’s president marks the latest advance of leaders and movements that are reshaping the political map of the region. With the notable exceptions of Mexico and Brazil, the right is gaining ground and threatening to roll back many of the political and social advances of recent decades

Defense Secretary Hegseth says he does not rule out a military option in Cuba and proposes operations on Colombian soil. Trump’s strategy to control the region is meeting with resistance from Mexico and submission from Central America

Court records and testimony from defense attorneys show how prosecutors and the courts are securing convictions based on opaque police files, anonymous allegations and trials conducted behind closed doors

The Salvadoran’s family says he died at Delaney Hall, while the Department of Homeland Security claims he did so in hospital

Peru is the latest country to turn to the Army for public-order duties, an exceptional practice that carries risks for civil rights and that has become normalized in the region’s fight against drug trafficking

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