Central America

Bukele’s Legislative Assembly Ousts Supreme Court Magistrates and Attorney General

Various legal experts have called what happened on May 1 a technical coup d’etat.

  • May 3, 2021
  • 8:55 AM

U.S. Government Hid Presence of U.S. Advisor in El Mozote Massacre, Expert Says

A United States military advisor, Sergeant Major Allen Bruce Hazelwood, was in Morazán with Coronel Domingo Monterrosa, commander of the Atlacatl Battalion, during the El Mozote massacre in December of 1981.

  • Apr 28, 2021
  • 10:08 AM

Harris Meets Virtually With Guatemalan President

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris told Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei Monday that the U.S. is planning to increase relief to the Northern Triangle region and “strengthen our cooperation” to better manage the steep increase in migration at the U.S. southern border.

  • Apr 26, 2021
  • 5:31 PM

A Decisive Week for the El Mozote Case

One expert witness will testify that there was a systematic government cover-up involving both the Salvadoran and United States governments.

  • Apr 26, 2021
  • 8:54 AM

Government of El Salvador Fabricates a New Case Against El Faro

This government’s attacks against El Faro include smear campaigns, stalking, illegal wiretaps, threats, and constant online harassment.

  • Apr 16, 2021
  • 8:23 AM

OPINION: US Economic Policies Have Turned Central American Countries Into Unsafe Prisons of Poverty

We can’t expect a corporate liberal media to expose the central role played by U.S. corporations, banks, the State and Defense Departments, Congress and successive Presidents in creating the conditions for what is happening at the U.S.-Mexico border.

  • Apr 14, 2021
  • 11:21 AM

Ricardo Zúñiga: ‘An Economic Crisis in El Salvador Could Prompt a New Wave of Migration’

Ricardo Zúñiga has spent the past several days fielding the same question with diplomatic stoicism and a poker smile.

  • Apr 13, 2021
  • 12:29 PM

How I Made It: Unforgivable (A Latino USA Podcast)

Unforgivable tells the story of Geovany, a former hitman for the 18th Street gang who left the gang and converted to Christianity in prison, only to ask to be transferred to the isolation cell to live openly as a gay man.

  • Apr 6, 2021
  • 11:10 AM

Women in El Salvador Bear the Invisible Wounds of Economic Violence

While physical violence is one of the elements that prompts reporting domestic violence, there is another, more subtle type of violence that constrains women and inhibits their actions—and often goes unreported

  • Jan 28, 2021
  • 4:20 PM

Prison Officials Flouted Legal Protocols in Transfers of MS-13 Leaders

Officials at the Salvadoran Prison Bureau ordered the emergency transfer of MS-13 leader Chino Milo from the maximum-security wing of Izalco Prison, where he is incarcerated, to the hospital in Zacatecoluca—despite the prison’s chief doctor’s claim that he had a clean bill of health.

  • Jan 14, 2021
  • 12:31 PM

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