A key figure in the story of alleged embezzlement at the Santa Victoria de R.L. Savings and Credit Cooperative (Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito Santa Victoria de R.L, COSAVI) is Carlos Godoy, who was Nayib Bukele’s defense attorney in a case known as the Troll...
No. “The Special Military Security Brigade is responsible for border protection and Military Police duties,” states Article 63 of the Organic Law of the Armed Forces. That provision is there. Still in effect. A few days ago, we saw images of a wall of shields bearing...
We critical observers of Nayib Bukele’s rise to absolute power have always warned that the militarization of public security, the state of exception, and the takeover of the judicial system—supposedly instruments to combat crime—would sooner or later be used...
It was 2006. Juan Carlos Cornejo Martínez was 22 years old and worked on a pig farm. One of the tasks for the long-haired rocker, a resident of the Santa Rita neighborhood in El Congo, Santa Ana, was to check the water levels in the cisterns, located about ten meters...
Latin American leaders have spent millions of dollars hiring top Washington lobbyists to gain influence with the Trump administration, according to a joint investigation by The Guardian and the Quincy Institute. Public disclosures under the Foreign Agents Registration...
A federal judge in Washington on Friday gave the Trump administration one week to identify its efforts to return Kilmar Abrego García, as well as 137 Venezuelan men deported to an El Salvador prison under the wartime Alien Enemies Act — a ruling that came a few hours...
