News

ElFaro24y
Mientras más niñas, mejor
La directora abre los ojos y los clava en la pantalla de la computadora. Hace el gesto que uno hace cuando se entera de una mala noticia. Una muy mala noticia. Las dos manos, una sobre otra, le tapan ...
El Faro5mon
Bitcoiners: The New Owners of El Zonte
Leer en español Between 2015 and 2020, the average price of land per square meter in El Zonte, one of El Salvador’s most popular beach towns, was $34.33 U.S. dollars, according to a sample of 50 sales ...
El Faro2y
State of Exception Files: Hundreds Arrested for Prior Convictions or “Looking Nervous”
Leer en español 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 ...
El Faro2y
El Salvador Government Protection of MS-13 from Extradition Emerges in DOJ Indictment
Leer en español In a newly unsealed indictment, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) asserted that, as part of the accords with the Mara Salvatrucha, the current government of El Salvador protected ...
El Faro3mon
Frozen US Aid Puts Salvadoran Civil Society in a Bind
Leer en español 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 ...
El Faro5mon
US Deports MS-13 Leader to El Salvador with Alleged Members of Tren de Aragua
Leer en español 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 ...
El Faro2mon
US Wife of CECOT Deportee: “He was seeking asylum… Sometimes I think he’s dead”
While in detention, González was able to communicate with her husband. She also kept tabs on his location through ICE’s detainee tracker. From New Mexico he was transferred to the El Paso and El Valle ...
El Faro2y
Gobierno compró $2.2 millones en equipo de espionaje a empresa de amigo israelí de Bukele
El Gobierno de El Salvador favoreció con un contrato millonario directo en equipo de espionaje a un amigo del presidente Nayib Bukele. En octubre de 2020, siete meses y medio después de que el ...
El Faro10mon
“Arévalo’s every action faces prosecutors’ arbitrary scrutiny”
In July 2024, Santiago Palomo was switched from his post as head of the National Anti-Corruption Commission, a body key to President Bernardo Arévalo's political agenda, to quell monthslong public ...
El Faro4mon
Bukele’s Airport Project Brings Deforestation and Displacement
Leer en español The first construction works on El Salvador’s Pacific Airport, a signature Bukele infrastructure project, have displaced 225 families from the communities of Condadillo and Flor de ...
El Faro3y
Chivo es una empresa privada financiada con fondos públicos
Un excandidato a concejal del FMLN por la alcaldía de San Salvador es el administrador único propietario de Chivo SA de CV, una sociedad cuyo nombre fue modificado en agosto de 2021, pero que fue ...
El Faro7mon
Nicaragua’s Gold Rush: A New Frontier of Corporate Extraction
A young miner smokes a cigarrette in the IRON gold mine some 10 km from the town of Rosita in the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region in northeast Nicaragua, on Mar. 6, 2017. Local men, women, and ...