The Trump administration’s move four months ago to send more than 230 Venezuelan migrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador known as CECOT took a staggering toll, not only on the men themselves but also on their families. The men were released to Venezuela...
After a few hours in the air, Neri Alvarado Borges and the other Venezuelans on a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flight landed in Honduras. Alvarado was hopeful. He had been detained by ICE in Texas in early February. Told he could face years in...
The government’s Dos Escuelas por Día (Two Schools per Day) program has marked two months since its launch; teachers’ unions are analyzing it and doubt that the pledge can be fulfilled because of how ambitious it is. Since its launch on May 22, the Executive Branch...
Hardly a surprise. For anyone paying close attention, the constitutional reforms put forward by Nayib Bukele’s party merely confirm a trajectory of power concentrating in his hands. It is a trajectory that began with his ascent to El Salvador’s highest office, cloaked...
On July 31, as many Salvadorans were planning their August vacations, the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador rammed through, in an expedited process, measures that spelled the end of the republic as they had known it. The near-total pro-government majority approved a...
As it turns out, this was anti-globalism: a young president who had joked about being the world’s “coolest” dictator, criticizing moral universalism and international organizations at the UN, and then explaining to his followers why the political...
