On October 5th, a new newscast started broadcasting on a State channel to report the government’s activities. ARPAS editorial offers the following analysis: Nayib Bukele (…) has managed to impose himself on the agenda and in the public debate thanks to the intensive use of social media and the condescension of most traditional media, especially […]
(VER EL ORIGINAL EN ESPAÑOL AQUÍ) September 29, 2020 Honorable Milena Mayorga, Our organization, the TPS National Alliance, sends our warmest regards. Despite the fact that the Salvadoran community that benefits from TPS is experiencing moments of anguish and uncertainty, we have decided to organize and fight. We have the right to remain […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) The sistering meetings resumed today. Some attended virtually. The new PROGRESO representative had to leave the meeting before presenting his report; but the rest of the regions shared the following: UCRES Felicia: The psychosocial care processes have already started in some communities. We do it in partnership with ACISAM. People […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) On Sunday, CCR accompanied the constitution of the Teosinte youth association, “Activating Teosinte”. The board of directors was elected and energizers were carried out to keep the participants active. The mayor was present at the event. Now it only remains to take the bylaws to the official newspaper for them to […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) President Nayib Bukele held a press conference on September 24 in which Ambassador Ronald Johnson made a special video appearance. Bukele spoke about the military files of the El Mozote case, made new appointments and also spoke about the letter sent by Democrats concerned about the situation of independent journalism in […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Due to the COVID19 pandemic, meetings with high school scholars in San Vicente had been suspended. Today the group met again keeping their social distance. This space was used for the students to reflect on the challenges they have faced during these months. The promoter Alfredo López divided the participants into […]
ARPAS reports: “The organization of victims of the massacre, which left at least 1,000 people dead, calls on Bukele’s lack of coherence and summons him. ‘This was a dishonorable and dishonest decision by the President of the Republic towards the community of victims (…) This day is engraved in our memory that he is one […]
FACTUM reports: The Minister of National Defense, Francis Merino Monroy, asked the magistrates of the Supreme Court of Justice to stop the inspection of military archives scheduled for next Monday, September 21, as part of the proceedings ordered by a judge in the criminal case for the massacre that occurred in El Mozote in 1981. […]
Estamos hablando de diez u once que fueron los que firmaron de trescientos ochenta y tantos que son los senadores en Estados Unidos. No representan ni siquiera el cinco por ciento de ellos. Esto quiere decir que no es unánime, que no es una visión que tenga realmente el gobierno de los Estados Unidos, sino […]
(EN ESPAÑOL AQUÍ) The National Court in Spain has sentenced former Colonel Inocente Orlando Montano to 134 years in prison for ordering the murder of six Jesuits in El Salvador. It has been 31 years since the massacre took place on November 16, 1989, when several troops of the Army of El Salvador machine-gunned six […]