The Mara Salvatrucha-13, the Revolucionarios or Sureños factions of 18th Street and other smaller gangs like the Mao-Mao, La Mirada Locos, and CODEMAR no longer operate in the streets of El Salvador — ...

Bitcoin Beach is a project born in 2019. Mike Peterson, a surfer from California, claims he received an anonymous Bitcoin donation to carry out projects in the community. When the Covid-19 pandemic ...

February 26 was the last day that the investigative journalism magazine GatoEncerrado had a physical newsroom. It was one of 11 Salvadoran media outlets affected by the freezing of U.S. cooperation ...

Melvin Reyes was arrested on Sunday, March 27, the same day the government declared a state of exception, and was accused of belonging to the Mara Salvatrucha. Twenty days later, a judge ordered his ...

A modern-day gold rush is poisoning ecosystems and terrorizing Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities in Nicaragua, as corporations and settlers invade autonomous territories and nature reserves, ...

Over the last weekend in March, 2022, a secret pact between the administration of Nayib Bukele and the gangs of El Salvador violently fell apart. In the ensuing 72 hours, the MS-13 gang assassinated ...

In 2023, two years after illegally releasing Élmer Canales Rivera, the MS-13 leader known as “Crook”, the government of El Salvador launched a desperate bid to re-capture him before the February 2024 ...

Thousands of illegal arrests, surveillance of journalists and dissidents, warrantless searches, political prisoners, mass trials held online, in which defendants cannot speak to their lawyers, inmates ...

El Gobierno del presidente Nayib Bukele tiene una estructura oculta por encima de sus ministros, una especie de supragabinete formado por al menos diez asesores venezolanos cuyos contratos, honorarios ...

Magistrates of the Constitutional Chamber of El Salvador’s Supreme Court of Justice, installed by President Nayib Bukele on May 1, ruled last Friday, September 3, to permit consecutive presidential ...

La Chivo Wallet pertenece a una empresa privada creada hace 22 años por la Comisión Ejecutiva Hidroeléctrica del Río Lempa (CEL) -institución pública de carácter autónomo-. La sociedad anónima fundada ...

I was born and raised in a democracy, which may sound like a “normal” statement to many. However, this wasn’t the case in Latin America during the 1970s and 80s, when military dictatorships were the ...