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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 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 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 Faro3y
Criminal Investigation Found the Bukele Administration Hid Evidence of Negotiations with Gangs
An investigation led by former Attorney General Raúl Melara found that the government of Nayib Bukele held negotiations in maximum-security prisons in 2020 with El Salvador’s three main gangs: the ...
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 ...
El Faro1mon
Warning for Democracy: Do Not Ignore the US Government Disappearing Migrants
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 ...
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 Faro7mon
The Many Deaths of Juan Saúl
Juan Saúl’s family thought it was suspicious that the guards at Quezaltepeque would have them enter the prison. In El Salvador, after 31 months of mass arrests amid a slow trickle of releases under ...
El Faro2mon
US Wife of CECOT Deportee: “He was seeking asylum… Sometimes I think he’s dead”
Jesús Alberto Ríos Andrade, one of the Venezuelans sent by the Donald Trump administration to the Terrorist Confinement Center in El Salvador, is married to a U.S. citizen. When he was detained on ...
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 ...