On September 11, 2022, outside the multifamily apartment buildings in the Colonia IVU neighborhood of San Salvador, the police captured María Beatriz Solís López and her mother, Ana Cecilia López Benavides, charging them with illicit association due to their alleged...
Despite the squandering of millions to dismantle democracy, the Salvadoran people have reached the stage of identifying their allies from 2026 onward—a task for their civil society organizations, both inside and outside the country, and their citizen diplomacy. Those...
Real estate in San Salvador’s Historic Center is highly coveted, and the presidential family has steadily expanded its portfolio. Over the past five months, Karim and Yusef Bukele, brothers and advisors to the president of El Salvador, acquired three new...
Since his first election as president of the Republic of El Salvador in June 2019, and his unconstitutional second election, Nayib Bukele has exhibited authoritarianism and autocracy, ultimately transforming El Salvador into a regime with glaring dictatorial traits....
It was pure chance that Óscar Martínez found himself in Madrid in February 2024. The Salvadoran reporter was making a brief stopover in Spain en route to a literary festival in Norway to which he had been invited. As is his habit when passing through the capital, he...
Dear Shakira: Thank you. During a week and five concerts in El Salvador, you did not allow a single leading figure of the dictatorship to take a selfie with you. You declined the multiple invitations to the Presidential House that reached you from various quarters....
