El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said Sunday night (June 1, 2025) that he doesn’t care if they call him a “dictator” and that democracy, transparency, human rights, and the rule of law “are terms” that in reality are used to...
This Sunday, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele will mark six years in power, the last of which has been in defiance of the Constitution. He will do so at the peak of his recent authoritarian escalation, after imprisoning at least 15 government critics in May and...
The democratic and rule of law regression in El Salvador has recently reached levels of four decades ago. “In the early 21st century, there was a notable decrease in the concentration of power, a trend that was markedly reversed starting in 2019, reaching levels...
Nayib Bukele’s sixth year in government continues to be marked by opacity, and one year into his second term, the appointment agreements for the cabinet of ministers have still not been disclosed. Bukele is constitutionally mandated to deliver an accountability...
Representatives of different business sectors in the country and economic experts have preferred to avoid expressing their opinions publicly in El Salvador for fear of reprisals, but although they have lowered the volume of their voices, they have not been silenced....
Nayib Bukele likes to present himself as the cool president who, along with Donald Trump and Javier Milei, wages the cultural battles of the new right with the 21st century’s most efficient political weapons: social media. But, to shield his power from the...
