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Journalists Association of El Salvador warns of possible 'criminalization' against El Faro local news outlet for reporting on gangs

"The Journalists Association of El Salvador (APES, by its Spanish acronym) expressed its solidarity this Saturday, April 9, with the local news outlet El Faro and denounced an 'apparent process of criminalization for their journalistic work' against two of its members. 'In the last few hours, it became known a possible filing of a notice […]

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Legislative Assembly of El Salvador, with an official majority, approves sentences of up to 15 years in prison for reporting on gangs

“The Legislative Assembly approved this Tuesday, March 5, a reform to the Penal Code to sanction with ten to fifteen years in prison those who through the media ‘reproduce or transmit messages or communications’ from gangs. This prohibition covers the dissemination of 'texts, paintings, designs, drawings and graffiti' of gangs, according to the reform approved […]

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IACHR will analyze abusive use of Pegasus spy program against journalists and civil society in El Salvador

"During a Wednesday [March 16] hearing, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) will examine the large-scale use of the Pegasus spy program to monitor journalists and members of civil society in El Salvador. The move follows a joint investigation by the organizations Access Now and Citizen Lab published in January, which identified the use […]

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El Salvador: Calls to investigate Nayib Bukele for alleged espionage

"The humanitarian organization Cristosal called on the Court of Accounts of El Salvador on Feb. 8 to carry out 'a special examination of the use of public funds' by the Presidency of the Republic, the State Intelligence Agency (OIE, by its Spanish acronym ), as well as the Ministries of Security and Defense in response […]

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IAPA warned of serious implications for press freedom in El Salvador

"The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) warned this Wednesday of "serious implications for press freedom" in El Salvador due to recent modifications to the Criminal Procedure Code (CPP) to combat computer crimes that "creates the legal status of an "undercover digital agent.” According to the agency's statement, the reform, approved on Feb. 1, by the Legislative […]

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President of the Salvadoran journalists' group denounces phone hacking

"El presidente de la Asociación de Periodistas de El Salvador (Apes, by its Spanish acronym), César Fagoaga, denunció este jueves el hackeo a el móvil que es utilizado por el gremio para recibir denuncias de comunicadores vulnerados. Fagoaga explicó en una conversación telefónica con Efe que la tarde de hoy nos dimos cuenta de un […]

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El Salvador lets in two Cuban journalists who were critical of the regime and were forced to leave the island

"Two Cuban journalists who remained stranded for more than 30 hours at the San Salvador International Airport have been admitted to the Central American country by the government of President Nayib Bukele, after the regime of Daniel Ortega, an ally of Havana, rejected their entry to Nicaragua. Independent reporters Esteban Rodríguez and Héctor Luis Valdés […]

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El Faro, El País, and La Silla Vacía win Premio Gabo awards for 2021

"The Gabo Foundation, an institution founded by journalist and Nobel Prize laurate in Literature, Gabriel García Márquez, announced the winners of the Premio Gabo 2021, the premier journalism award in Spanish and Portuguese, in its four contest categories: Text, Image, Coverage, and Innovation. 'Massacre in Tamaulipas. The American Dream dies in Mexico' and 'Beyond the […]

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In El Salvador, Bukele promotes Foreign Agents Law

"The Minister of the Interior of El Salvador, Juan Carlos Bidegain, presented before the Legislative Assembly this Tuesday [Nov. 9] an initiative of the Law of Foreign Agents, similar to the one approved by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega [of Nicaragua], in which President Nayib Bukele seeks to 'regulate' the donations or financing that different […]

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Another edition of ForoCap is back, organized by Salvadoran media outlet El Faro

From Nov. 4 to 11, the series of conferences, events and journalistic workshops ForoCap 2021 will be held. They are organized by the investigative journalism site El Faro, from El Salvador. In this edition the events will be held from 3 countries, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, with face-to-face and virtual access. "You will be […]