BIOGRAPHY José Ángel Pérez is a pastor at the Misión Cristiana Elim branch in El Triunfo, Department of La Libertad. As ad honorem president of the El Bosque Cooperative, he accompanies more than 250 farming families in their struggle for land security. He spent 220...
One of Latin America’s most complex and sensitive debates is playing out in El Salvador today: how far can a state go in the name of security without putting human rights and fundamental guarantees at risk? Nayib Bukele’s government achieved something that...
By Carmen Navas Reyes The administration of El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has given rise to a proposal we might call the ‘Bukele Model,’ in which, on the surface, has managed to politically seduce large majorities in our region to the point of...
Since Karl Marx, we have known that the peak of a system contains the seeds of its own destruction and weakness; it is a fundamental pillar of historical and dialectical materialism. The Salvadoran case is beginning to reveal the sharp edges of a regime that, through...
The last time Mirna Urías saw her son Merlon, he was 18 years old, wearing black shorts and a brown shirt. It was the night of March 30, 2022. She remembers seeing him kneeling alongside three friends while a group of police officers stood guard over them with rifles....
López, 48, heads the Anti-Corruption Unit at Cristosal, one of Central America’s leading human rights organizations. She has investigated alleged corruption by senior officials in the administration of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and denounced serious human...
