Colombian singer Shakira will stage a series of concerts at the Jorge “El Mágico” González Stadium in El Salvador—events the Government has heavily promoted as part of its strategy to boost tourism. Videos circulating on social media have revealed the construction of...
After concluding his visit to the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (Terrorism Confinement Center) in El Salvador, Chilean President-elect José Antonio Kast declared that “El Salvador was one of Latin America’s most dangerous countries and is now the...
In the small Central American nation of El Salvador, recent years have witnessed the rise of a new model of autocrat who embodies the worst tendencies of this first quarter of the twenty-first century. His name is Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez. The world now knows him,...
Costa Rica heads to the polls this Sunday, February 1, to elect a new president and a new Legislative Assembly. Laura Fernández, candidate of President Rodrigo Chaves’s Pueblo Soberano party, leads the polls by a wide margin over a decimated opposition; and even...
The latest report from the Salvadoran organization Legal Humanitarian Aid (SJH) documents 470 deaths among detainees during the 45-month state of exception spearheaded by Nayib Bukele. The investigation concludes that “a high percentage of people who entered the...
Approximately 1,300 detained persons died in El Salvador’s prisons between March 2022 and December 2025—the period during which the state of exception has remained in effect. Of that figure, 470 cases are documented in detail, revealing that some of the deceased...
