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“The fear is different now”: How life has changed in El Salvador in the 4 years of Bukele’s war on gangs — “El miedo ahora es otro”: cómo ha cambiado la vida en El Salvador en los 4 años de guerra de Bukele contra las maras

“The fear is different now”: How life has changed in El Salvador in the 4 years of Bukele’s war on gangs — “El miedo ahora es otro”: cómo ha cambiado la vida en El Salvador en los 4 años de guerra de Bukele contra las maras

08/25/2026

Walking through a neighborhood in El Salvador built on a hillside, Adélia Rosales points toward an alley: “Five bodies turned up here.” For years she lived with her husband and two young children in La Campanera, a neighborhood on the outskirts of the...
“Bukele is a dictator just like any other: he steals, kills, tortures, and persecutes, only with better public relations” — “Bukele es un dictador igual que cualquier otro: roba, mata, tortura y persigue, solo que con mejores relaciones públicas”

“Bukele is a dictator just like any other: he steals, kills, tortures, and persecutes, only with better public relations” — “Bukele es un dictador igual que cualquier otro: roba, mata, tortura y persigue, solo que con mejores relaciones públicas”

08/13/2026

Noah Bullock has been with Cristosal for two decades. He arrived as an intern in 2005, freshly graduated in Peace and Conflict Studies, and in 2010 became its executive director. Today he leads the human rights organization that makes Nayib Bukele most uncomfortable,...