Lawmaker Claudia Ortiz of the Vamos party filed a constitutional challenge with the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) this Friday against the constitutional reforms approved by Nuevas Ideas lawmakers on July 31. “Specifically against the reform that enables...
After El Salvador’s congress changed the Constitution last week to eliminate presidential term limits, the Trump administration this week is insisting that authoritarian President Nayib Bukele is not a dictator. “We reject the comparison of El Salvador’s...
Bukele has been undermining his country’s democratic safeguards since he came into power. In 2021, after his party, Nuevas Ideas, won a supermajority in the Legislative Assembly, he illegally removed supreme court justices and the attorney general — a move widely...
El Salvador is projected to post the slowest growth in Central America in 2025, according to several international entities. When compounded by the economic effects of recent political decisions, the outlook becomes even more complicated. Economists at U.S.-based Citi...
El Salvador under President Nayib Bukele has become a textbook case of democratic backsliding, illustrating how an elected leader can dismantle a democracy from within. In just a few years, Bukele, once an anti-establishment outsider, transformed a fragile democracy...
El Salvador’s president has finally secured the changes that will enable him to serve in office for life. By a 57-3 margin, El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly last week approved constitutional amendments eliminating presidential term limits and extending presidential...
