El Salvador’s President Nayib Armando Bukele, self-proclaimed “coolest dictator”, has had a busy 2025. Among his draconian rulings are escalated attacks on the press, which has forced dozens of journalists into exile. This includes the majority of...
President Trump intends to name the deputy secretary of the Homeland Security Department to be the U.S. ambassador to El Salvador, a major shift in the DHS leadership structure, multiple sources told CBS News. Troy Edgar was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in...
After 14 years in Wisconsin, the last four months of it in the public eye, Yessenia Ruano is back in her native El Salvador. She’s far from the young woman who escaped harassment from gangs. She has a husband and their twin daughters with her. She has the...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem said in a federal court filing Friday evening that she was the one who decided Venezuelan detainees aboard two airplanes bound for El Salvador in March would be handed over to that country despite a judge’s order temporarily...
Accumulated new pension debt since 2023 reached $2,721.7 million last October following the addition of another $45 million to the tally, according to data from the Banco Central de Reserva (Central Reserve Bank). The government acquires these funds by issuing...
Samuel (a pseudonym), an educator with 25 years of service, asserts that he fled El Salvador in haste after receiving a warning from authorities at the departmental directorate of the Ministerio de Educación (Ministry of Education, MINED) in the area where he worked....
