Standing atop a hillside, two men carefully examine a handful of white stones resting in their hands. They tilt them slightly, letting them catch the sunlight as small golden flecks glint on their surface. “No,” says Melvin, the younger one, glancing again at the...
On Saturday, the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, accused “the vast majority” of independent journalists of forming a global “money-laundering” network and pointed to USAID in the alleged scheme. “The vast majority of journalists and ‘independent’ media outlets...
President Nayib Bukele stated this Saturday in a message on X that “the vast majority” of journalists and “independent” media are “part of a money laundering operation.” “The vast majority of ‘independent’ journalists and media outlets are actually part of a worldwide...
The relationship between former U.S. President Donald Trump and El Salvador’s authoritarian leader, Nayib Bukele, is often mischaracterized as a friendship — or, as some claim, a “bromance.” But this is a dangerous illusion. True partnerships between nations involve...
One day after eliminating bitcoin as legal tender, the only Salvadoran official who had commented on the matter walked into a huge hotel ballroom in San Salvador, packed with cryptocurrency enthusiasts. Facing an audience of people whose promise had been broken might...
In March 2018, when “Víctor” (Víctor Manuel Romero Herrera) and “Joche” (José Emanuel Machado Martínez) asked an acquaintance to join a supposed extermination group, they never imagined they were recruiting someone who, a few years later, would become a key witness...