The Bitcoin (XBTUSD) crash has hit few places as hard as El Salvador, laying bare the risks of President Nayib Bukele’s high-stakes cryptocurrency gamble and battering the country’s debt markets. Bukele, an ardent proponent who made the token legal tender alongside...
In El Salvador, at a historic moment of assaults on democracy, abuse of power, and human rights violations—where the majority of religious leaders have chosen the whisper of convenience or complicit silence in the face of power—the figure of Mario Vega emerges as a...
El Salvador’s attorney general and trusted ally of President Nayib Bukele, Rodolfo Delgado, has kept frozen a money laundering investigation into Alba Petróleos de El Salvador—a company bankrolled by the Venezuelan government whose financial web reaches bank...
When the cops arrived at a party in Cantón la Estancia, a tiny hamlet in the shadow of the San Miguel volcano, Walter Josué Huete Alvarado didn’t think he had any reason to worry. He had a minor infraction on his criminal record — a DUI when he was a teenager — but...
José Ángel Pérez, a pastor at Misión Cristiana Elim, is currently complying with the conditions handed down by the Second Court of Instruction on December 17, 2025, following a special hearing. Pérez was arrested on May 12, 2025, alongside attorney Alejandro...
El Salvador’s relationship with the United States has long been defined by asymmetric integration into U.S.-led patterns of accumulation and security regimes, from the Cold War to the “war on drugs” and the “war on terror.” In the 1980s, El Salvador’s military...
