“El Salvador’s Bitcoin investments are in the black!”, wrote an enthusiastic Nayib Bukele on his X account on the morning of December 4, 2023. After dozens of articles criticizing his investment, which was obviously generating losses, the now...
On Sunday, January 7, in the afternoon, one day after the start of the first electronic voting for the Salvadoran diaspora, a group of Salvadorans shared a private streaming transmission with me. The link came without a description, but what I witnessed was a live...
“We always skip a meal,” says Cecilia Ábrego bluntly, describing the sacrifices her family has made because of the rising costs of basic staples. She’s not alone. In El Salvador, nearly half of the population suffers moderate to severe food insecurity, meaning they do...
The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) -with over 13,000 members worldwide- condemns the issuance of a provisional arrest order by the San Francisco Gotera Investigative Court on December 22, 2023 against the Salvadoran scholar and politician Dr. Rubén Ignacio...
On January 14, the new president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, from the Semilla Movement, took office with the expectation of fostering a new “democratic spring” in the Central American neighboring country, which has always been dominated by...
The legislature for the 2024-2027 period would be composed of two deputies from the ARENA party, 57 from Nuevas Ideas, and an ally from the Christian Democratic Party, according to the recently released social mood survey by the electoral observation consortium...
