The relationship between former U.S. President Donald Trump and El Salvador’s authoritarian leader, Nayib Bukele, is often mischaracterized as a friendship — or, as some claim, a “bromance.” But this is a dangerous illusion. True partnerships between nations involve...
One day after eliminating bitcoin as legal tender, the only Salvadoran official who had commented on the matter walked into a huge hotel ballroom in San Salvador, packed with cryptocurrency enthusiasts. Facing an audience of people whose promise had been broken might...
In March 2018, when “Víctor” (Víctor Manuel Romero Herrera) and “Joche” (José Emanuel Machado Martínez) asked an acquaintance to join a supposed extermination group, they never imagined they were recruiting someone who, a few years later, would become a key witness...
In the hills of Chalatenango—a place of green mountains, crystal-clear rivers, and a community steadfast in its beliefs—the voices of its inhabitants rise once again in opposition to a project that threatens their lives and their future: metal mining. Among the...
The Nuevas Ideas caucus proposed in the Asamblea Legislativa (Legislative Assembly) eliminating the concept of public campaign financing for political parties through a constitutional reform, by repealing Article 210 of the same legal framework. During the plenary...
The council member of San Salvador Este (Soyapango, Ilopango, Tonacatepeque, and San Martín), Hernán Carrasco, denounced that municipal employees threaten citizens for receiving support that he provides and also for taking pictures with him. Carrasco reported that...
