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’
With Donald Trump at the helm, a diverse far-right movement made up of libertarians, paleoconservatives and neo-reactionaries seeks to change the world by reversing the values of the Enlightenment. Several recently published books have examined this phenomenon
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
Under the US president’s approach, the region is once again subject to a relationship shaped by coercion and strategic calculation
A report by Humanitarian Legal Relief documents that 31.8% of the deceased died violently, while a similar number lost their lives due to lack of medical attention
The US border czar, a defender of some of Trump’s most controversial immigration policies, has extensive experience in law enforcement
The authorities have deployed the army to patrol the streets, but the response has had little impact on the gangs or a judicial system riddled with corruption
The most unsettling issue is not that the authoritarians are winning. It’s that those who should be opposing them seem to have forgotten why
Bari Weiss, the new anti-woke head of CBS News, removed a ‘60 Minutes’ segment at the last minute after the White House declined to comment
Brayan Palencia was one of more than 200 migrants sent by the United States to Nayib Bukele’s mega-prison CECOT for alleged links to criminal gangs
The former vice president of Colombia, who is a leading security experts in Latin America, analyzes the critical moment the region is facing and its key challenges
As drug production and trafficking increase across the continent, criminal groups of all sizes are diversifying their operations and increasing their firepower. Governments, meanwhile, stumble between hard-line policies and paralysis
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights demands information from the Central American leader regarding their situation
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
The leader has completed one month in office after the removal of his predecessor, and he enjoys a 55.9% approval rating thanks to his mastery of social media platforms
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
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
The government understands that the US warships anchored in the Caribbean Sea are not focusing on alleged drug shipments as much as they are on President Maduro and his closest aides
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
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
Military operations in the Caribbean have been accompanied by a strategy of pressure through intimidating messages