In a thread posted on social media platform X, President Nayib Bukele commented on the case against El Bosque Cooperative, initiated due to bank debts and followed by lawsuits with a land development company, thereby justifying his intention for a Foreign Agents Law...
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele launched a harsh offensive against human rights organizations on Tuesday, ordering that 30% of their income be withheld. Bukele’s decision, similar to that adopted by his Nicaraguan counterpart, Daniel Ortega, in 2020 to stifle...
If the proposed Foreign Agents Law announced by President Nayib Bukele, which includes a 30% tax on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), is approved, it would affect the population’s freedom of association, a rapporteur from the United Nations (UN) warns....
Arming a Dictatorship Since Bukele’s ascension to the presidency in 2019, Israeli exports to El Salvador have been rapidly advancing, growing at an annual rate of more than 21%. This increase consists primarily of weapons. Salvadoran forces are well supplied with...
Nuevas Ideas was managing a loan restructuring in 2023, when the cooperative was already under investigation for alleged mismanagement of funds. Bukele’s legal advisor scheduled a meeting with the general manager of Cooperativa Santa Victoria de El Salvador...
The Senate on Thursday rejected a resolution written by Democrats that would have required that the Trump administration tell Congress what steps it has taken to comply with court orders involving U.S. deportees imprisoned in El Salvador and to report on the country’s...
