Nuevas Ideas, Nayib Bukele’s party, attempted to approve a temporary law that would have covertly increased the water fee provided by the Administración Nacional de Acueductos y Alcantarillados (ANDA) (National Administration of Aqueducts and Sewers), impacting...
Before he became arguably the most popular head of state in the world, Nayib Bukele was an adman. The President of El Salvador has branded himself the “world’s coolest dictator” and a “philosopher king,” but he is, perhaps above all, a former publicist attuned to the...
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele sat down for an interview with TIME in his office at the Casa Presidencial in San Salvador on June 25. Bukele, who won re-election in February with 84% of the vote, had just begun his second term. He discussed his government’s...
Mr. Orellana is a merchant who was a victim of gangs for two decades and has been detained for the past eight months under the state of exception at the Izalco prison in Sonsonate, where the State keeps him incarcerated due to supposed ties to his tormentors: the Mara...
The right-wing celebrities attended the swearing-in ceremony at the Salvadoran National Palace, joined in the sumptuous black-tie dinner that followed and posed for numerous photos with Bukele, who wore a gold-embroidered black suit somewhere between a military...
For more than two years, the 26-year-old tractor driver has been in prison in El Salvador, accused of “gang association”, even though the country’s legal system has twice ordered his immediate release. Despite two judges’ clearly worded decisions in his favour, Mr...
