While the Trump administration deepens ties with El Salvador, its millennial president is cracking down on dissenting lawyers, activists and journalists.

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele is intensifying his crackdown on dissent, a move observers suggest has been emboldened ...

A group of them are now struggling to adapt to a bittersweet process that still moves them: the joy of having found their ...

In the context of serious human rights setbacks, the weakening of the rule of law, and the dismantling of institutional ...

Senate Democrats introduced legislation Thursday to hold the Salvadoran government “accountable" for its alleged “collusion ...

By Mathew Cohen El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele delivered a defiant speech marking one year since his re-election, ...

An IAEA team of experts visited the candidate sites of El Salvador’s first nuclear power plant during a Site and External Events Design Review Service mission. (Photo: CEL) ...

(Washington, DC) – Authorities in El Salvador have arrested the prominent human rights lawyer Ruth Eleonora López, Human Rights Watch said today. On May 18, 2025, at 11 p.m., Salvadoran police ...

A prominent human rights lawyer known for defending immigrants deported amid United States President Donald Trump’s hardline anti-immigration policies has been arrested in El Salvador.

El Salvador’s top independent investigative news outlet moved its headquarters to Costa Rica in 2023. More of its journalists ...

President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gangs has brought peace to El Salvador, but the price, some Salvadorans say, has been the loss of civil liberties. “We used to be afraid of the gangs ...

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele speaks during a ceremony to lay the first stone of Chivo Vet, a veterinary hospital financed with the gains El Salvador has obtained from its bitcoin ...