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El Salvador's missing thousands buried by official indifference

El Salvador's missing thousands buried by official indifference

Entering the San Salvador district of Mejicanos no longer means taking your life in your hands, like it did a decade ago when Kathya Quintanilla left home to meet a friend at a local park. The 16-year-old never came home, one of tens of thousands of people to
María Isabel Sánchez AFP 20 Apr 2026
In El Salvador's mass trials, 'the innocent pay for the guilty'

In El Salvador's mass trials, 'the innocent pay for the guilty'

Wearing white uniforms, their heads shaved, rows of bewildered-looking men are beamed by video link from prisons across El Salvador into a courtroom conducting a mass trial of alleged gang members. Four years after President Nayib Bukele declared war against gangs in the Central American nation, the fates of
María Isabel Sánchez AFP 05 Apr 2026
Salvadoran anti-corruption lawyer jailed to 'silence her', husband says

Salvadoran anti-corruption lawyer jailed to 'silence her', husband says

Jailed Salvadoran lawyer Ruth Lopez symbolizes the "decency" and "credible voice" that President Nayib Bukele's government only managed to silence with imprisonment, her husband Louis Benavides told AFP in an interview. Lopez, 48, who headed the anti-corruption unit at the NGO Cristosal, was
María Isabel Sánchez AFP 19 Mar 2026

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