In November 2021, the gangs of El Salvador murdered 45 people in just three days to send a message to President Nayib Bukele, with whose administration they had been negotiating secretly since at ...

A criminal investigation in El Salvador found evidence that Bukele’s vice minister of justice and Bureau of Prisons director, Osiris Luna, embezzled $1.6 million worth of food between September and ...

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 ...

Leer en español 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 ...

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 ...

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 gang members ...

A United States military advisor, Sergeant Major Allen Bruce Hazelwood, was in Morazán with Coronel Domingo Monterrosa, commander of the Atlacatl Battalion, during the El Mozote massacre in December ...

Leer en español 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 ...

Leer en español For the 25 years since its birth, El Faro has operated as a private Salvadoran company under the administrative name Trípode S.A. de C.V. That phase has now come to a close. El Faro ...

<p dir='ltr'>Diferentes voces nacionales e internacionales califican lo ocurrido la noche de este sábado como un autogolpe de Estado. La Asamblea de Bukele, en su primera sesión, y sin seguir los ...

Leer en español Thousands of illegal arrests, surveillance of journalists and dissidents, warrantless searches, political prisoners, mass trials held online, in which defendants cannot speak to their ...

El Faro’s Tuesday investigation included a stunning government admission: Carlos Marroquín, a state negotiator with MS-13, told the gang that he personally aided in the international escape of “Crook, ...