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El Faro2y
State of Exception Files: Hundreds Arrested for Prior Convictions or “Looking Nervous”
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 ...
El Faro2y
Bukele Government Dismantled Gang Presence in El Salvador
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 — ...
El Faro5mon
Bitcoiners: The New Owners of El Zonte
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 ...
El Faro3mon
Frozen US Aid Puts Salvadoran Civil Society in a Bind
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 ...
El Faro1y
“Bukele must be investigated for torture under the state of exception”
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 ...
El Faro4mon
US Deports MS-13 Leader to El Salvador with Alleged Members of Tren de Aragua
Twenty-three members of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), including two leaders accused of acts of terrorism in the United States, were sent by the Donald Trump administration to El Salvador in the early ...
El Faro1y
Salvadoran Government Conspired with Gang Leader to Recapture ‘Crook’ through Jalisco Cartel
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 ...
El Faro3y
Asamblea de Bukele reforma la ley para purgar a un tercio de los jueces
La Asamblea Legislativa aprobó la noche de este martes 31 de agosto reformas de ley que jubilan de manera automática a un tercio de los jueces del país, y a una cantidad no determinada de agentes ...
El Faro6mon
Nicaragua’s Gold Rush: A New Frontier of Corporate Extraction
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, ...
El Faro4y
El gabinete oculto de venezolanos que gobierna con Bukele y su familia
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 ...
El Faro4mon
Offering US His Torture Prisons, Bukele Wants MS-13 Leaders Back
El Salvador, a country with the highest prison population rate in the world and an overcrowding of at least 130 percent, has offered to receive inmates of any nationality who are being held in the ...