El Salvador corruption watch

Corruption was on voters' minds in El Salvador when they rejected the traditional political parties  in El Salvador and elected Nayib Bu...

El Salvador gets a new attorney general

Deputies in El Salvador's National Assembly have elected a new attorney general. The deputies passed over current attorney general Dougl...

El Mozote massacre trial

Next week will mark the 37th anniversary of the massacre of children and others at El Mozote and surrounding communities.  From December 10-...

A victim of sexual violence imprisoned for attempted murder

A young woman in El Salvador sits in a prison cell after being repeatedly raped by her elderly step father and giving birth to his baby.   I...

El Salvador still lacks a constitutional court

Almost 4 months have passed since El Salvador was supposed to have filled vacant seats in the Constitutional Chamber of El Salvador's Su...

Why arrests of supposed gang members do not signify successes

The Attorney General's office (FGR) and National Civilian Police (PNC) in El Salvador regularly (like every day) parade in front of the ...

Still no Supreme Judicial Court magistrate appointments

El Salvador's National Assembly remains unable to agree on new magistrates to El Salvador's Supreme Judicial Court.   A super-majori...

"Extraordinary Measures" in Salvadoran prisons now are permanent

This article originally appeared on the website of InsightCrime with the title  El Salvador Congress Makes ‘Extraordinary’ Prison Measures P...

Updating the news from El Salvador

I was on sabbatical from posting to El Salvador Perspectives for the last few weeks.   Here is a short summary of some of the recent news du...

Legislators miss deadline to fill El Salvador's Supreme Court

July 15 marked the end of the term for 5 members of El Salvador's Supreme Court and their back-ups (suplentes).   This includes four of ...

A court ruling on forced displacement

In 2017 I wrote a post about forced internal displacement which starts with this true story: The message was slipped under the door of thei...

Two final pronouncements of the Constitutional Chamber

Today El Salvador's National Assembly is choosing new magistrates for the country's Supreme Judicial Court.   Two final decisions ...

Choosing a Supreme Court

The next three weeks will see El Salvador's National Assembly make very important choices of magistrates for the country's highest c...

Slow wheels of Salvadoran justice

It has been almost two years since El Salvador's Supreme Judicial Court overturned the 1993 amnesty law which had prevented prosecution ...