On April 16, 2018, a judge in San Salvador ordered the Attorney General to reopen a case against high-ranking former military officers who are accused of orchestrating the massacre of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter at the Central American University Jose Simeon Cañas (UCA) in 1989, among them Chancellor Father Ignacio Ellacuria, who is thought to have been the main target of the killing.

On April 20, a civil court in El Salvador absolved the family of former President Francisco Flores (1999-2004) on a technicality in one of the most high-profile cases of corruption in the country’s recent history. Francisco Flores, from the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), was under house arrest and on trial for corruption and embezzlement when he suddenly died in 2016.

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Environmental leaders in El Salvador say the voice of the diaspora is CRITICAL in the struggle to guarantee the human right to water - will you help us spread the word? // Liderxes del movimiento ambiental en El Salvador URGEN la participación de la diáspora en la lucha para garantizar el derecho humano al agua  - ¿nos puede ayudar en correr la voz?

On March 22, transgender activists and LGBTI social movement leaders joined legislative deputy Lorena Peña of the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) as she introduced a bill for a new Gender Identity Law. The proposal, originally drafted in 2012 by the Roundtable for the Gender Identity Law in El Salvador, a coalition led by trans support and visibility organizations that includes progressive legal and health care organizations, would allow transgender people to legally change their names and gender on official documents.

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