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El Salvador

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
  • 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
  • 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

July 2023

  • FILES-EL SALVADOR-PARLIAMENT-JUSTICE-GANGS<br>(FILES) This handout picture released by the El Salvador's Presidency shows the second arrival of inmates belonging to the MS-13 and 18 gangs to the new prison "Terrorist Confinement Centre" (CECOT) in Tecoluca, 74 km southeast of San Salvador, on March 15, 2023. El Salvador's Congress on July 26, 2023, ordered that detained alleged gang members be tried collectively, which will lead to groups of some 900 inmates facing the same trial. (Photo by EL SALVADOR'S PRESIDENCY PRESS OFFICE / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / EL SALVADOR'S PRESIDENCY PRESS OFFICE" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by -/EL SALVADOR'S PRESIDENCY PRESS O/AFP via Getty Images)

    El Salvador clears way for mass trials as crackdown on gangs ramps up

  • Outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in El Salvador<br>Cemetery workers move the coffin of a woman, who died of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during her funeral, at the Santa Tecla cemetery, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues, in Santa Tecla, El Salvador June 24, 2020. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

    Salvadoran government accused of doctoring true extent of Covid deaths

  • Protesters call for the release of relatives from jails in El Salvador<br>epa10733243 A group of relatives of detainees under state of emergency protest to demand the release of their relatives, especially pregnant women and children, in San Salvador, El Salvador, 07 July 2023. According to the protesters, dozens gathered at the El Salvador del Mundo Monument but police officers arrived at the scene to disperse them. Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Marta Hurtado said in March that over the past year, at least 65,000 people have been detained, including of children, under the state of emergency introduced on 27 March 2022. EPA/Rodrigo Sura

    Life imitates art as El Salvador pressures book fair to bar dissenting writer

  • Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, addressing soldiers.

    The Guardian view on El Salvador’s crime crackdown: a short-term, high cost fix

May 2023

  • Gang members are seen during a search by security teams in prisons in El Salvador in March 2022.

    At least 153 died in custody in El Salvador’s gang crackdown – report

    Human rights group’s 107-page report details human cost of President Nayib Bukele’s controversial ‘war on gangs’
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