The effort to publicly ignore the huge problem ahead has been blatant. Several officials of Nayib Bukele’s Government, including himself, have acted as if nothing happened. But something did happen, something very serious. On Tuesday, November 9th of this year,...
How much sequin is needed to divert attention from the human rights violations of an authoritarian regime and from the future dictator? For El Salvador, all the yards that are necessary, including spotlights and all the paraphernalia and the pink press that comes with...
The presence of Nayib Bukele, as president and candidate for consecutive reelection, at the Miss Universe pageant, held in El Salvador, has generated criticism from civil society, lawyers, and international community figures, considering the pageant was used as a...
President Nayib Bukele, as a good authoritarian leader, has rarely backed down from his decisions. He doesn’t have to: he controls all the powers of the state and has intimidated unions, businessmen, and critical citizens. But such a tiny act for Bukele’s...
At the conclusion of a removal hearing, a federal court in Houston, Texas ordered Elmer Canales-Rivera, aka Crook de Hollywood, a high-ranking leader of La Mara Salvatrucha, aka MS-13, to be transferred in custody to the Eastern District of New York where he and 13...
The United States claims that senior officials of the Salvadoran Government were the ones who removed Elmer Canales Rivera, alias “Crook,” an influential leader of the Mara Salvatrucha gang, from prison to irregularly transfer him to Guatemala, in addition...
