Despite the squandering of millions to dismantle democracy, the Salvadoran people have reached the stage of identifying their allies from 2026 onward—a task for their civil society organizations, both inside and outside the country, and their citizen diplomacy. Those...
Real estate in San Salvador’s Historic Center is highly coveted, and the presidential family has steadily expanded its portfolio. Over the past five months, Karim and Yusef Bukele, brothers and advisors to the president of El Salvador, acquired three new...
German lawmakers Gökay Akbulut and Max Lucks, members of the Federal Parliament, on Tuesday demanded the release of Salvadoran activist Ruth López, along with other individuals who—they denounced—have been unjustly detained under the state of exception in force in El...
Last weekend, human rights organizations reported the deaths of two inmates held at the Izalco Penal Center in Sonsonate. Socorro Jurídico Humanitario (Legal Humanitarian Aid) confirmed that, as of February 8, it had documented the deaths of at least 487 prisoners...
The Bitcoin (XBTUSD) crash has hit few places as hard as El Salvador, laying bare the risks of President Nayib Bukele’s high-stakes cryptocurrency gamble and battering the country’s debt markets. Bukele, an ardent proponent who made the token legal tender alongside...
February 4, 2024. Although the polling stations have just closed and the Supreme Electoral Tribunal has not released results, Bukele has stepped out onto the balcony of the National Palace and, in his exaggerated and grandiloquent fashion, proclaimed himself the...
