Geovanni Antonio Aguirre López has had alternative measures to detention for over a year, but he has not been able to leave the Izalco Penal Center, according to a complaint from Socorro Jurídico Humanitario (SJH), which has already filed a habeas corpus with the...
In its most recent issue, American magazine Time published an extensive monologue. It called it an interview with the “most popular authoritarian in the world.” To leave no doubt about its editorial stance, it hammered home the slogan “The...
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...
