I have spent the last two weeks listening to testimonies from people in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and even Argentina, who are victims of espionage, harassment, and persecution by state agents, whether intelligence officers, prosecutors from the Ministerio...
The Índice de Bonos de Mercados Emergentes (Emerging Market Bond Index, EMBI) compiled by J.P. Morgan has risen steadily since mid-February, making El Salvador the country with the region’s highest EMBI and pushing it above the Latin American average while displacing...
El Salvador’s total public debt balance reached $33.13 billion in April, including commitments with the Pension Fund, according to the Banco Central de Reserva (Central Reserve Bank, BCR). It jumped by $629.83 million in a single month. This is the most...
Nayib Bukele, the self-declared “world’s coolest dictator,” will mark six years as El Salvador’s president on Sunday, a period defined by contentious reforms, which critics say have brought peace to the streets at an incredibly high price. His iron-fisted crackdown on...
El Salvador is facing a new level of repression as President Nayib Bukele moves to crack down on foreign non-profit funding after the arrest of a high-profile activist, according to one of the few significant government critics left in the country. “Nobody is safe,”...
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged El Salvador on Friday to repeal its newly enacted “foreign agents” law, calling it a direct threat to press freedom and civil society. The law, approved on May 20 by the Legislative Assembly dominated by President Nayib...
