Decades of mano dura—or “iron fist”—experiments in Latin America suggest that hard-on-crime policies are likely to fail. Yet in El Salvador, a crackdown launched by President Nayib Bukele in 2022 successfully dismantled the country’s gangs, turning...
The Salvadoran State has not fully complied with the reparation measures for the victims of the El Mozote massacre, according to the latest resolution on compliance supervision of the sentence, published last Friday by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Corte...
On Thursday (27.06.2024), El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele announced the dismissal of over 300 people employed by the Ministry of Culture for promoting “agendas” that are incompatible with his government’s vision, which are associated...
One of the architects of Nayib Bukele’s closeness to the “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) movement is Argentine advisor Damian Mathías Merlo Denebardi. Merlo lobbied for the Government of El Salvador through the company Latin American Advisory Group...
The current administration has cut the two budget lines aimed at supporting the finances of the country’s municipalities by $57.2 million in 2024, according to data from the Ministry of Finance. And, as with the electricity subsidy, the budget for this has not...
While the government receives a barrage of comments on social media from citizens claiming that their gas subsidy has been taken away for months, the data from the Ministry of Finance confirms that they have made budget cuts allocated to pay for this benefit for...
