On Sunday, May 18, Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, definitively shed the mask he has governed with since his 2019 election to show his true face: that of a dictator with enough power to imprison anyone who dares to denounce his corruption or criticize his...
Salvadoran writer Horacio Castellanos Moya was born in Honduras in 1957, but he arrived in El Salvador, his father’s country, when he was very young, and it was there that he grew up and put down roots. But for more than two decades, one of the founders of the...
In Corinto, the announcement of school reconstructions and the relocation of classes to private homes to continue the educational process has, far from bringing joy or excitement for new infrastructure, caused concern and uncertainty that the two recently closed...
The U.S. think tank Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) published an article stating that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is bailing out El Salvador from a difficult fiscal situation, hence it recommends “not being lenient” on the cryptocurrency...
The Salvadoran government has announced a Foreign Agents Law. This is not a new initiative. In 2021, the same bill was presented to the Asamblea Legislativa (Legislative Assembly); the parliamentary committee approved an opinion, but pressure from international...
The National Civil Police arrested Ruth Eleonora López Alfaro, a lawyer and the legal director of Cristosal, on Sunday night. The Attorney General’s Office published a tweet confirming the administrative detention order against López, who is accused of...
