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...
The Salvadoran justice system, under the control of President Nayib Bukele, has launched a series of mass trials against more than 80,000 people detained since the implementation of the state of exception in March 2022. This Friday, a San Salvador court initiated the...
Pope Leo XIV laments, in his message for this year’s World Day of Peace, the frequency with which faith is “dragged” into political combat. Faith is wielded to bless nationalism and to provide religious justification for violence and armed struggle....
The Asociación Nacional de Usuarios del Sistema de Salud Pública y del Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social (National Association of Users of the Public Health System and the Salvadoran Social Security Institute — ANUSAL) expressed deep concern over the crisis...
