At the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, amid pavilions featuring X-ray machines and edible curiosities (including a butter sculpture of President Theodore Roosevelt), there were “anthropological” displays in which Indigenous people from around the world inhabited...
Some days seem like years. In the last two weeks, Nayib Bukele’s unconstitutional government has made it clear that its greatest weakness is not the problems it causes, but the narrative surrounding them. Narratives are those stories woven on social media and in...
By considerably reducing the homicide rate in El Salvador, Nayib Bukele has achieved what all his predecessors had failed to do. El Salvador is no longer the most dangerous country in the world. Many countries are now looking to imitate the Salvadoran model —which we...
The expression “to smell like sheep” is a metaphor used in Christian contexts to describe a leader who is very close to his community. Pastors who smell like sheep are those who involve themselves in the daily lives, struggles, and joys of the people they serve,...
While thousands of Salvadoran workers must wait six months or more than a year to be seen by a specialist at the Salvadoran Social Security Institute (Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social, ISSS), a silent queue moves swiftly due to “administrative...
Amnistía Internacional (Amnesty International, AI) called for an investigation into the death of a transport worker captured and in state custody, after warning that the government of El Salvador “is deepening an authoritarian pattern” in the face of...
