A consumption and tourism boom may not translate to broad economic growth

The White House has quietly paused an order to end Temporary Protected Status for thousands of immigrants from El Salvador, a move that came after months of lobbying from the construction industry and...

The world moved on after Kilmar Abrego Garcia, but people continue to disappear.

DHS was set to end temporary protected status for El Salvador before the White House stepped in.

93,000 persons captured during ongoing State of Exception face trials which produce decades long prison sentences, not guilt or innocence.

Russia is staging an election that matters to almost no one — except President Vladimir V. Putin and his inner circle.

The Bukele government said they imprisoned a man deported from Texas citing “sovereign cooperation.” They asked that an international order protecting his rights be withdrawn, despite their own admiss...

The designation for El Salvador had an expiration date this past Wednesday. 170,000 are in limbo as the US says it will make an announcement “when appropriate.”

Not used by Salvadorans in daily life, the government’s ongoing accumulation of the digital asset is now claimed by the IMF to be from “private donations”

The dry corridor of Central America suffers from the high temperature and lack of rain associated with the El Niño weather pattern.

Bitcoin payments fade at El Salvador's Bitcoin Beach as merchants report cash and cards dominate, reflecting HODL culture and structural economic shifts.

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Most of the ways are not something the Salvadoran government talks about openly.

Exile for El Faro journalists would follow publication of these reports

and Trump ramps up deportations of Salvadorans

El vicepresidente electo habló con la ministra de Economía salvadoreña. El encuentro dio cuenta de las afinidades entre el gobierno entrante y Bukele.

Deceptive recruiting has led hundreds of ex-soldiers and police to sign up for non-combat security jobs, only to find themselves on the front-line.

The Salvadoran leader who loves publicity, avoided the spotlight on this meeting with Trump less than a week before Salvadorans with TPS lose work authorization.

The meeting comes days after the Salvadoran president was nominated as the Nuevas Ideas candidate for the 2027 elections, amid a context marked by the constitutional amendment that allowed for indefin...

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

El Salvador's ruling party has ratified President Nayib Bukele’s candidacy for the February presidential elections.

Nuevas Ideas installed a series of changes to solidify Nayib Bukele and the party's hold on power, while opposition parties are tiny and fragmented.

Están por cumplirse 16 meses desde que el salvadoreño Irvin Quintanilla, de 25 años, fue deportado junto con 252 venezolanos desde Estados Unidos al CECOT en El Salvador. El Estado admitió que estaba ...

In El Salvador, Bukele registers to run for a third term in 2027 after scrapping term limits. In Guatemala, Trump’s nominee for ambassador steps down amid turmoil over U.S. policy. Trump’s threat to…

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Bukele is a Trump ally, but China is playing the long game

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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

A hospital, a storm, a repressive law, and mass trials

If you’re attending the 2026 World Cup in areas impacted by the Trump administration’s militarized immigration crackdown. Know your rights — and your risks — before you go.

A new convention center in "El Espino"

Bertha María Deleón salió forzada de El Salvador en 2021. Se prometió dejar el activismo. Cuatro años después, asegura que esa promesa era imposible —y reconoce por qué es importante que así sea.

High end apartment towers doing little for majority of Salvadorans with substandard housing

One year has passed since human rights lawyer Ruth López was detained and then imprisoned by the Salvadoran government.

A year after the arrest of Salvadoran human rights lawyer and anti-corruption advocate Ruth Eleonora López Alfaro, WOLA’s Latin America Today podcast revisits her case and the broader situation unfold...

Óscar Martínez of El Faro profiles Nayib Bukele

Freezing assets is latest act in years of harassment of award-winning journalism site

The Salvadoran government misleadingly claims that it is clearing the records of thousands of innocent people detained by mistake.

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 lo...

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

How Nayib Bukele entertained his way to dictatorship.

Locking in power of Bukele and Nuevas Ideas for the long term