Hardly a surprise. For anyone paying close attention, the constitutional reforms put forward by Nayib Bukele’s party merely confirm a trajectory of power concentrating in his hands. It is a trajectory that began with his ascent to El Salvador’s highest office, cloaked...
On July 31, as many Salvadorans were planning their August vacations, the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador rammed through, in an expedited process, measures that spelled the end of the republic as they had known it. The near-total pro-government majority approved a...
As it turns out, this was anti-globalism: a young president who had joked about being the world’s “coolest” dictator, criticizing moral universalism and international organizations at the UN, and then explaining to his followers why the political...
The fast-tracked passage of a constitutional amendment enabling indefinite presidential reelection in El Salvador marks a point of no return in the dismantling of the democratic order under the unconstitutional government of Nayib Bukele. The president, who came to...
Over the past three months, the following message was sent en masse to Salvadorans, purportedly from Correos de El Salvador (El Salvador Postal Service): “Correos de El Salvador: your package has arrived at the warehouse, but it cannot be delivered due to an...
The Catholic Church in El Salvador urged the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday to reconsider the reforms to the Constitution of the Republic approved on July 31. These changes allow for indefinite presidential reelection, extend the presidential term to six years, and...
