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...
Norman Quijano was transferred to La Esperanza Prison—commonly known as Mariona—following his deportation from the United States. He will remain in provisional detention pending the resolution of an appeal regarding his 13-year, 4-month sentence for procedural fraud...
Obviously, it is total. A second question, linked to the first, is whether the use of brutal, relentless, and inhumane force is the only way to achieve it. Again, the obvious answer is yes. The self-evidence of these responses hinges on one’s conception of...
