El Faro is an award-winning Central American news outlet that produces in-depth and investigative journalism on many platforms, including audio, documentary films, and books. Founded in San Salvador ...

February 26 was the last day that the investigative journalism magazine GatoEncerrado had a physical newsroom. It was one of 11 Salvadoran media outlets affected by the freezing of U.S. cooperation ...

After three and a half years of negotiations, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) endorsed a $1.4 billion credit for El Salvador, a country without a separation of powers and which has imposed a ...

El Salvador, a country with the highest prison population rate in the world and an overcrowding of at least 130 percent, has offered to receive inmates of any nationality who are being held in the ...

Bitcoiners: The New Owners of El Zonte In the last three years, the average price per square meter in one of El Salvador’s most famous beaches was $80.61 USD, more than doubling from $34.33 before ...

Entre 2015 y 2020, el precio promedio del metro cuadrado en El Zonte era de $34.33, en una muestra de 50 compraventas revisadas por El Faro. Pero entre 2021 y 2024, esa cifra fue de $80.61, lo que ...

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has once again demanded that the Salvadoran state reinstate all the constitutional guarantees that were suspended when the state of exception was ...

El Faro first published this article in Spanish in October 2023. Inside Mariona Prison in El Salvador, there is an individual who appears recurrently in the testimonies of those who were imprisoned ...

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

La elección municipal permitirá a Nuevas Ideas, el partido oficial, controlar el 61% de las alcaldías del país. La lectura del oficialismo es que 15 municipalidades (34%), donde no ganó, serán ...

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On Wednesday, Élmer Canales Rivera, one of the most senior leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha-13 gang in El Salvador and a transnational fugitive known as “Crook de Hollywood”, was captured in Mexico, ...