For the second time in less than a month, the First Tribunal Against Organized Crime in San Salvador has suspended the trial of nine Salvadoran Civil War veterans and former combatants from the Alliance for a Peaceful El Salvador and communications volunteer Luis Menjivar, further prolonging more than two years of pretrial detention in a case already marked by serious due process violations. This time, however, no new date for the trial has been announced.

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Since fall 2025, the Trump administration has carried out a widely condemned campaign of strikes against boats in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans that it claims are involved in drug trafficking. To date, the Pentagon claims to have killed more than 200 people in extrajudicial killings.

On July 10, 2026, 80 international religious and faith-based organizations, human rights and immigrant rights groups, unions and Salvadoran diaspora groups published a letter calling for the release of Salvadoran unionist and community organizer Geovanni Aguirre, arrested on May 8, 2022, under Bukele's State of Exception. 

The trial of nine Salvadoran Civil War veterans and a communications volunteer from the Alliance for a Peaceful El Salvador, scheduled to begin on August 11, has been postponed until September 7–10, further prolonging more than two years of pretrial detention in a case already marked by serious due process violations.

July 30, 1975. San Salvador. Fuerza Estudiantil Salvadoreña (FES) hosts an alternative march and rally to commemorate the 1975 student massacre.

On Saturday, July 30, students at El Salvador’s national university commemorated 51 years since the July 30th,1975 student massacre. On that historic, heroic, and tragic day, thousands of university students, professors, and workers marched in the streets of San Salvador alongside campesinos, urban workers, and middle school and high school students to demand respect for the sovereignty of the university, which was under attack and to protest the generalized conditions of political repression under the military government of Col Arturo Molina.

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