"The Salvadoran news outlet FocosTV announced Thursday it is moving its operations to Costa Rica, citing 'repression by a government that seeks to silence critical voices' in El Salvador. The outlet described the move as forced displacement. In a video statement, a representative of FocosTV said the Salvadoran government is using the state of emergency […]
"The Committee to Protect Journalists and Free Press express outrage that journalist Mario Guevara faces imminent deportation back to his native El Salvador after the Board of Immigration Appeals on Friday re-opened his 13-year-old immigration case, declining to release him on bond. [...] Guevara—an Emmy-winning, Spanish-language reporter who covers immigration— has been in law enforcement […]
"The Association of Journalists of El Salvador (APES for its initials in Spanish) announced Tuesday [Sept. 16] that it will stop carrying out projects funded by international cooperation and close its offices indefinitely, citing what it called the “suffocating, arbitrary and illegal conditions” imposed by the Foreign Agents Law promoted by President Nayib Bukele’s government. […]
"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 […]