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El Faro Denounces Possible Arrest Warrants for At Least Seven Staff Members in El Salvador
A reliable source in El Salvador told El Faro that the Bukele-controlled Attorney General’s Office is preparing at least seven arrest warrants for members of El Faro. The source reached out following ...
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 Faro1y
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
“There is enough evidence for El Salvador to be tried for crimes against humanity”
Zaira Navas leads a team that has interviewed hundreds of detainees under the government’s “state of exception” who suffered grave human rights violations during the months they spent in prison. In ...
El Faro12y
“The Guatemalan army had every right to execute the necessary actions”
El Faro published this interview in Spanish on April 23, 2013. Zury Ríos has the physical features as well as the ideological imprint of her father, General Efraín Ríos Montt. She is the heiress to ...
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 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 Faro2y
No Gangs, but No More Democracy
The visible absence of gang structures in many Salvadoran communities is big news for every Salvadoran, particularly those who have lived under siege by these criminal groups for decades. The ...
El Faro5d
Ruling on Bukele Reelection Prompts US Comparisons to Venezuela
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 ...
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 Faro2y
Police Documents Prove Illegal Release of MS-13 Leader in El Salvador
The National Civil Police (PNC) of El Salvador knew within 24 hours that Élmer Canales Rivera, one of the most senior leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha-13 known as “Crook de Hollywood,” was illegally ...
El Faro2y
15 Members of El Faro Sue NSO in US Federal Court for Pegasus Hacks
On Wednesday, 15 members of El Faro filed suit against the Israel-based surveillance company NSO Group in U.S. federal court for allegedly designing and deploying the spyware Pegasus to infiltrate the ...