On March 3, 2022, Gabriela, Nayib Bukele’s wife, promised as the first lady the construction of the “El Nido” Maternity Center with Love as a new space for the care of children in El Salvador. At the end of that same month, the government initiated a...
When El Salvador celebrates its Independence Day on September 15th, it will have been in a state of indefinite exception for a year and a half. Elected in June 2019, President Nayib Bukele, a young millionaire and former PR executive, has remilitarized politics and...
“This was everyday life in El Salvador,” Castro told the congregants. Yells of “death penalty,” “put them away for good,” and “reelection” inundated the room. A line of 16 other legislators from the ruling party Nuevas Ideas had filed onto the auditorium stage, but...
The government’s parade, attended by thousands of people, began with the participation of elite units from the Armed Forces and police, followed by around 3,000 students accompanied by musical groups from schools in the capital. Cabinet officials who...
As the government held a military parade yesterday for Independence Day, social organizations and families of those detained under the state of emergency marched through the capital’s streets to denounce human rights violations, reject Nayib Bukele’s...
U.S. President Joe Biden included El Salvador on Friday in the list of major drug production and transit countries. China is also on the list due to its manufacture of precursor chemicals for fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid. In a memorandum sent to Congress,...
