Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez expressed his concern over the country’s situation, warning that the population is exposed to arbitrary actions without institutional protection, during the homily delivered this Monday at the Metropolitan Cathedral as part of the...
Nayib Bukele covered his face with both hands and began to pray like a child pleading for a miracle. He remained that way for nearly two minutes. Eyes closed, before roughly twenty lawmakers in the Legislative Assembly and a dozen soldiers standing guard behind him,...
The Salvadoran regime, adroitly orchestrated by Nayib Bukele since 2019, further tightened its grip on Thursday, July 31. With the Legislative Assembly—firmly in the grip of the president’s party, Nuevas Ideas—voting to abolish the cap on presidential mandates and...
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has just swung the door wide open to an unlimited stay in office, and every signal he has sent suggests that he intends to walk through it. On Thursday, the Legislative Assembly, controlled by his party, rammed through a...
Nayib Bukele, once known as the young, Twitter-savvy millennial who wore his baseball cap backward when he reached the presidency in 2019, has since amassed accusations of muzzling every dissenting voice as his administration veers ever further into authoritarianism....
El Salvador has entered the roster of authoritarian regimes after reforming its Constitution to permit indefinite reelection, extend the presidential term to six years—from the previous five—and abolish runoff elections, according to Noah Bullock, director of the...
