By Niko Vorobyov On Friday, March 25, 2022, hundreds of cellphones in the small, Central American nation of El Salvador glowed with the same text message: “Adelante” (“go ahead”). The heavily tattooed gangsters of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) had their order. They went on...
For human rights defenders, the improvement in El Salvador’s security levels comes at a high price: the erosion of democracy and respect for the rule of law. However, they acknowledge that President Nayib Bukele’s government has public support. Measures...
In brief Ruling-party lawmakers fast-tracked a constitutional reform regarding the overseas electoral district and the depoliticization of the TSE. Ratification is still pending.Analysts fear the changes seek to favor the ruling party with the votes of Salvadorans...
Over the last decade, Latin America has stopped being the scene of coups with tanks in the streets and has become the laboratory for a more subtle and lethal phenomenon: the dismantling of democracy from within. Drawing on the investigation “Anatomy of a...
The images of the mass trials only remind me of how militaristic governments handled elections during the seventies, because there are images that power designs to remain as the official memory of an era. To be broadcast, to implant an idea as an unquestionable truth,...
Representatives from health and education unions joined the march held this Friday, May 1, to commemorate International Workers’ Day and denounced more unjustified layoffs in both sectors, along with new forms of hiring without job stability and a lack of...
