El Salvador is projected to post the slowest growth in Central America in 2025, according to several international entities. When compounded by the economic effects of recent political decisions, the outlook becomes even more complicated. Economists at U.S.-based Citi...
El Salvador under President Nayib Bukele has become a textbook case of democratic backsliding, illustrating how an elected leader can dismantle a democracy from within. In just a few years, Bukele, once an anti-establishment outsider, transformed a fragile democracy...
El Salvador’s president has finally secured the changes that will enable him to serve in office for life. By a 57-3 margin, El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly last week approved constitutional amendments eliminating presidential term limits and extending presidential...
In one of his first extensive U.S. press interviews since being released from custody in July, conducted via video conference on Wednesday and published Thursday, Andry Hernández Romero described finding ways to survive by adapting to his fellow inmates, keeping a low...
Pastor José Ángel Pérez removed his blue cap and began to pray. He stood under a tree, surrounded by members of his congregation, Misión Cristiana Elim in El Triunfo, a rural community 15 miles southwest of San Salvador. On the morning of May 13, Pérez took part in a...
Judge Joan M. Azrack of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York asked the United States Department of Justice to justify the “suitability and merits” of the agreement between the government of President Donald Trump and his Salvadoran counterpart,...
