"The Monitoring Center of the Association of Journalists of El Salvador (APES, for its acronym in Spanish) recorded a total of 314 attacks on journalists between Jan. 1 and July 14, 2025, with May being the month with the most violations, with 91. The figures are cause for concern in the context of Journalists' Day, […]
Five journalistic works from Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, and El Salvador were announced as winners in the 13th edition of the Gabo Award, the most important recognition for journalism in Spanish and Portuguese. In the Text category, the award went to the report “Buscando a Mikelson: un apartheid en el Caribe” (Searching for Mikelson: Apartheid […]
“A U.S. federal appeals court on Tuesday [July 8] ruled that a district court erred when it dismissed a lawsuit filed by a group of Salvadoran investigative journalists against a spyware manufacturer whose product was allegedly used against them. In March 2024, a California federal judge threw out a 2022 lawsuit filed by Carlos Dada […]
"This Thursday, July 3, 2025, the Court of First Instance of Dulce Nombre de María formally handed down the conviction of General José Guillermo García, Colonel Francisco Antonio Morán, and Colonel Mario Adalberto Reyes Mena, found guilty of ordering the murders of four Dutch journalists on March 17, 1982, during the Salvadoran civil war. According […]
“The undersigned organizations express our deep alarm at the accelerated deterioration of press freedom in El Salvador, which has intensified significantly in recent weeks. The Association of Journalists of El Salvador (APES, for its Spanish acronym) has documented the forced displacement of at least 40 journalists because of a sustained pattern of harassment, intimidation, and […]
"The Association of Journalists of El Salvador (APES, for its initials in Spanish) issued a statement on Monday, June 9, in which it denounced a possible plan by the Salvadoran government to detain journalists of the digital news outlet El Faro. According to the statement, the journalists canceled return flights from Costa Rica to El […]
"Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's crackdown on dissident voices in El Salvador has reached a point of no return. This Tuesday [May 20], the Legislative Assembly, under the president's absolute control, approved the Foreign Agents Law, which will allow it to dictate with a single order which humanitarian organizations or independent media outlets can or cannot […]
"Two foreign journalists and Loida Avelar, from FACTUM magazine, were arbitrarily detained by a group of seven members of the Armed Forces of El Salvador (FAES, for its initials in Spanish), while they were reporting on the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in Tecoluca, San Vicente, El Salvador. While they were recording general images of the […]
"The editor of the digital media outlet El Faro revealed Saturday afternoon [May 3] that they have information that the [El Salvador] Attorney General's Office is preparing arrest warrants against its journalists following recent reporting of a pact between Nayib Bukele's government and gangs. […] El Faro published interviews this week with two leaders of […]
“The prolonged state of exception in El Salvador, in place since March 2022 to combat gangs, continues to erode freedom of expression and has raised concerns among regional and international human rights bodies, Amnesty International said in its annual report on Monday. According to the organization, "the prolonged state of emergency continued eroding freedom of […]
"The trial for the 1982 murder of four Dutch journalists—Koos Koster, Jan Kuiper, Joop Willemsen, and Hans ter Laag—scheduled for April 23 has been suspended following a request by the attorney for Col. Mario Adalberto Reyes Mena, who informed the court that her client was undergoing surgery and would be unable to attend. The judge […]
"The brothers of two of four Dutch journalists murdered by the army of El Salvador in 1982 demanded justice on Tuesday [April 22], on the eve of the final phase of the trial against three former military chiefs. Cornelius Kuiper Joop, Koos Jacobus Andries Koster, Hans Lodewijk ter Laag and Jan Willemsen were killed in […]