Cruelty is a direct attack on human dignity. State cruelty is abominable by its very nature and can befall any citizen. That state, where cruelty has become public policy, is El Salvador.

Salvadoran political prisoner Ruth López’s family calls for her release. Audio published by Hondurasgate skips journalistic due diligence. Guatemala ends the tenure of an internationally sanctioned…

The Bukele regime in El Salvador has crossed yet another red line in its attacks on El Faro, freezing personal assets of shareholders. We will keep practicing journalism with the certainty that, as…

Socorro Jurídico Humanitario records 94,844 arrests and 470 deaths in prison under the state of exception in El Salvador. One of them was Blanca Osmilda Castro Quijada, who lived in a community…

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Carlos Dada, founder of El Faro digital news outlet, talks to Bianna Golodryga about the direction of El Salvador under President Nayib Bukele.

Police in London detain scores of people and confiscate placards under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded El Salvador’s 2025 Article IV consultation and completed the first review of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement. Comple...

Washington, D.C.-On January 4, 2021, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued Resolution 12/2021, through which it granted precautionary measures in favor of 34 workers at El Faro online newspaper in El Salvador, whom it deems to be at serious, urgent risk of suffering irreparable harm to their human rights.

Nayib Bukele has just had another of his critics arrested.  The government of El Salvador Saturday detained prominent attorney Enrique Anaya...

Rosario Murillo holds the reins in Nicaragua. By their own decree, she and Daniel Ortega are now “co-presidents” ruling without the separation of powers, not even on paper. Three moments help explain ...

In a trial declared secret, a court ordered the provisional imprisonment of the anti-corruption director of the human rights organization Cristosal organization.

Congress passed ‘foreign agents’ law targeting non-profits shortly after jailing of high-profile activist

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Leading human rights activist, Ruth López, has been arrested in El Salvador. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to her colleague Noah Bullock from the human rights organization Cristosal about the case.

Qué hay detrás de la escalada autoritaria de Nayib Bukele en El Salvador, y cómo el regreso de Donald Trump ha cambiado el escenario.

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Over 50 days since food and medicines have been allowed into besieged area

Cecot, a secretive 40,000-capacity facility built to house alleged gang members, ‘is meant for permanent exile, permanent punishment’

The Queen Mary University of London branch of the University and College Union, of which I am co-chair, hosts a webpage...

Mounting stories of ‘forced disappearances’ of Venezuelans in the US have left their loved ones distraught and disbelieving

La Iglesia Católica expresó su preocupación por los recientes acuerdos entre el presidente Nayib Bukele y el exmandatario estadounidense Donald Trump, en

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