Israel Payés, a university professor in El Salvador, describes Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as an “egocentric and pathological liar” whose narrative diverges sharply from what is happening on the ground. “He has two government entities dedicated...
The former director of the Electoral Oversight Board (JVE) for the party Nuestro Tiempo, Jeovany José Maravilla, was detained a month ago under the state of exception, family members and former leaders of the political organization reported on Friday. His arrest marks...
Users of public hospitals and the Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social (Salvadoran Social Security Institute) denounced the chronic shortage of medications, delays in medical care, and substandard conditions at multiple hospital facilities across the country on the...
Ahead of Colombian singer Shakira’s concert in El Salvador, several public institutions announced that staff would work remotely today, while others reported that employees would only work until 12:00 noon. The measure seeks to ease mobility and reduce traffic...
When President Bukele was questioned about human rights violations under his security policy—particularly regarding those detained in the CECOT—he responded: “(Human rights) we all have them. Prisoners have them, criminals have them, drug traffickers have them,...
The ideological and propagandistic war waged by the right—across its many variants—in Latin America fixates on three favorite supervillains: Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. This “axis of evil”—to borrow the phrase coined by George Bush’s advisor David Frum...
