Nayib Bukele covered his face with both hands and began to pray like a child pleading for a miracle. He remained that way for nearly two minutes. Eyes closed, before roughly twenty lawmakers in the Legislative Assembly and a dozen soldiers standing guard behind him,...
Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Ana Miranda Paz, a prominent figure in the European Parliament and current vice president of the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat), issued a forceful call on Friday for the European Union to impose sanctions...
It caught no one off guard. El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, has now been cleared for indefinite reelection. The Legislative Assembly, firmly in his pocket, smoothed the way with a constitutional overhaul that secures his absolute grip on power. His...
Shortly after six o’clock in the evening on Thursday, August 31, ruling party lawmaker Ana Figueroa introduced a bill before the full Salvadoran Congress to amend five constitutional articles that regulate presidential terms and prohibit reelection. Hours later, 57 of...
In just over five hours—between 4:34 p.m. and 9:57 p.m. on 31 July—Nuevas Ideas both approved and ratified the constitutional amendment that clears the way for indefinite presidential re-election. “Mr. President, I hold in my hands the Diario Oficial certifications of...
El Salvador’s legislative assembly has voted to remove term limits for the presidency and allow President Nayib Bukele to remain in power indefinitely. The move comes after years during which Bukele has accumulated power in the small Central American state. The...
