German lawmakers Gökay Akbulut and Max Lucks, members of the Federal Parliament, on Tuesday demanded the release of Salvadoran activist Ruth López, along with other individuals who—they denounced—have been unjustly detained under the state of exception in force in El...
Last weekend, human rights organizations reported the deaths of two inmates held at the Izalco Penal Center in Sonsonate. Socorro Jurídico Humanitario (Legal Humanitarian Aid) confirmed that, as of February 8, it had documented the deaths of at least 487 prisoners...
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...
February 4, 2024. Although the polling stations have just closed and the Supreme Electoral Tribunal has not released results, Bukele has stepped out onto the balcony of the National Palace and, in his exaggerated and grandiloquent fashion, proclaimed himself the...
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...
