To begin, let us not mince words: I consider Bukele a dictator. Now, let us proceed. Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez is the most powerful and beloved man in El Salvador. At 44, he has spent six years occupying the presidency of a republic that is no longer a republic. He...
My country is, as of today, the property of a single man: Nayib Bukele. It belongs to him, he possesses it, he can mold it at will—as he already has. He can change its currency if he wants—as he once did; he can redraw its administrative boundaries—as he also did; he...
The commission stated that dismissing the Peace Accords means failing to objectively honor the pain and suffering of the Salvadoran people, who clamored for an end to the civil war. To consider this historic milestone a farce is to repudiate all those who lived...
Guatemala knows such models all too well—or at least episodes that eerily echo them. The country has endured governments led by families, politicians, or dictators who looted the state, amassed fortunes, and eliminated critics and opponents through imprisonment,...
For nearly two months, residents of the San Francisco Angulo community in the Tecoluca district—part of the San Vicente Sur municipality—have guarded the access road to Lomas de Angulo. It was there, in October of last year, that a company began clearing and grading...
On Thursday, January 15, the Movimiento Todos Somos El Espino (We Are All El Espino Movement) filed a criminal complaint with the Fiscalía General de la República (Attorney General’s Office) regarding the alleged commission of environmental crimes during the...
