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El Salvador

November 2024

  • people hold large portraits alongside wreaths

    El Salvador ex-president among 11 to face trial for 1989 murder of Jesuits

    Army killing of six priests, their housekeeper and her daughter was one of civil war’s most notorious crimes

October 2024

  • Six men pose next to each other outside a building

    Environmentalists acquitted after contentious murder trial in El Salvador

    Former guerillas were accused of 1989 killing, but supporters say government wants to intimidate activists
  • Catholics participate in a march convened by the church against mining in El Salvador in San Salvador, El Salvador March 9, 2017. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas - RTS126L5

    El Salvador faces scrutiny for ‘political’ trial of five environmental activists

    UN and legal experts have condemned prosecution of anti-mining campaigners over alleged civil war-era killing
  • A mural depicting a man with his hands in a coffee bag and a woman with one hand on a boy's shoulder and another balancing a basket of coffee beans on her head

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘It used to be a farm – now it’s a mall’: how El Salvador’s crisis-hit coffee producers are trying to adapt

    Coffee once drove the economy but war, migration, climate and disease crippled the industry. Now, a new generation with women at the fore is focusing on quality as the answer

September 2024

  • A man in a boat in a mangrove forest

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    The vanishing mangroves of El Salvador: ‘All our efforts may only slow the destruction’

    In Barra de Santiago, local people are struggling to save one of the few remaining mangrove forests, as they are lost to agriculture and urban sprawl

July 2024

  • Hundreds of people stand with their hands on their heads as security forces wearing all black walk through.

    Rights and freedom
    Thousands of children swept up in El Salvador mass arrests, rights body says

  • Julio Torres and Tilda Swinton in Problemista

    Problemista review – quirky hipster comedy lets Tilda Swinton go for the laughs

June 2024

  • A small yellowish songbird perched on a log

    The age of extinction
    Rare birds at risk as narco-gangs move into forests to evade capture – report

  • Three young Latino people in black and white.

    What the US asylum process is really like, in applicants’ own words: ‘I’ve waited 10 years’

May 2024

  • A march to protest against mining in El Salvador in 2017. Photograph: José Cabezas/Reuters

    The Audio Long Read
    The true cost of El Salvador’s new gold rush – podcast

    Seven years ago, El Salvador banned all mining for metals to protect its water supply. But now the government seems to be making moves to reverse the ban – and environmental activists are in the firing line. By Danielle Mackey

April 2024

  • A march to protest against mining in El Salvador in 2017.

    The long read
    The true cost of El Salvador’s new gold rush

    The long read: Seven years ago, El Salvador banned all mining for metals to protect its water supply. But now the government seems to be making moves to reverse the ban – and environmental activists are in the firing line

5 February 2024

  • People wait in line against a wall to talk to a woman with a notebook and lanyard

    The future of work
    Garment workers have lost out on $4bn of severance pay, says rights group

    The employees, who made clothes for western clothing brands, were legally entitled to the money after losing their jobs
  • Nayib Bukele greets supporters next to his wife, Gabriela Rodriguez

    Nayib Bukele re-elected as El Salvador president in landslide win

    Voters reward Bukele for gang crackdown that has transformed security in central American country

  • El Salvador re-elects Nayib Bukele as president in a landslide – video

    Nayib Bukele has won a thumping victory in elections after voters cast aside concerns about erosion of democracy to reward him for a fierce gang crackdown

3 February 2024

  • Woman and her daughter on banks of a river coloured red due to substances from mining in Santa Rosa de Lima, El Salvador.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Gold fever: big mining companies circle as El Salvador prepares to reverse ban

  • EL SALVADOR-POLITICS-ELECTION-BUKELE<br>Portraits of El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele are sold at the Ex Cuartel market in San Salvador, on January 30, 2024. El Salvador goes to the polls on February 4. (Photo by Marvin RECINOS / AFP) (Photo by MARVIN RECINOS/AFP via Getty Images)

    El Salvador strongman Bukele eyes re-election – never mind the constitution

January 2024

  • Jordana Timerman

    Ecuador is copying El Salvador’s war on gangs – but it will only add to the spiral of violence

    Jordana Timerman
  • A composite photo of eight world leaders

    Rights and freedom
    Human rights in decline globally as leaders fail to uphold laws, report warns

October 2023

  • Four African women with small babies wait in a tent

    Climate crisis is ‘not gender neutral’: UN calls for more policy focus on women

    Only a third of countries with climate crisis plans include access to sexual, maternal and newborn health services, UNFPA report finds

September 2023

  • Gunmen mill around a police car on a Mexican street.

    Mexican cartels are fifth-largest employers in the country, study finds

    Organized crime groups have about 175,000 members and authors say the best way to reduce violence is to cut membership
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