In the right direction on Central America, the Trump Administration has issued a directive—a new sanctions instrument—to designate collaborators of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Oddly enough, the first individual sanctioned in April was former Costa Rican...
On August 1 of this year, the Salvadoran Congress approved a fast-tracked constitutional reform to allow Nayib Bukele to be reelected indefinitely. The Congress is controlled by Bukele’s party, Nuevas Ideas (NI), which holds fifty-four of the sixty seats in the...
On June 1, as he began his seventh year in office, Nayib Bukele issued a promise regarding the fate of the nearly 90,000 people imprisoned under the state of emergency: “We are not going to release them now, nor ever,” he said. Two and a half months later, in...
Many may be familiar with Schrödinger’s paradox: a cat in a box cannot be considered alive or dead until observed, because its fate depends on quantum events that may or may not occur. Today, the purported bitcoin purchases of the Salvadoran government can be...
What was once a mere hypothesis—that a substantial portion of El Salvador’s population would predominantly consist of older adults—has become a reality over the past 18 years. In 2007, for every 19.3 individuals aged 65 and above, there were 100 children and...
Organized citizens marched on Monday, September 15, to denounce democratic backsliding, the lack of judicial independence, and numerous violations of civic guarantees. The citizen march began at 25 avenida norte, in front of Hospital Rosales and the monument to the...
