María J. Vides The march is about to begin when I encounter Carmen again, one of the mothers from the Movement of Victims of the State of Exception (Movir). She does not recognize me. I remind her that we met a year ago outside La Esperanza prison, known as Mariona,...
Ruth Eleonora López—a prominent Salvadoran attorney, activist, and human rights defender internationally recognized for her anti-corruption work and criticism of the Nayib Bukele administration—marked her 250th day in detention last Thursday, January 22. Former head...
The Ministry of Education contracted a foreign company to manufacture school footwear, whereas previously it distributed the business among 200 micro and small enterprises. Furthermore, it imported one of the two school uniforms, even though for the past 15 years...
Francisco Carrión To begin, let us dispense with circumlocutions: I consider Bukele a dictator, writes Óscar Martínez point-blank. It is the opening line of Bukele, the Naked King, a book in which he dissects Nayib Bukele’s El Salvador, a country governed by a single...
The tranquility of San Francisco Angulo shattered on the night of December 23. While the community slept, a caravan of heavy machinery—escorted by rural police and personnel from a private company—attempted to enter the canton without prior notice, without community...
The Salvadoran government maintains a systematic veil of opacity spanning from public security to multimillion-dollar procurements—such as the new school package imported from Brazil—shielded by the abusive use of “information under seal.” This data...
