12/12/2023
A top leader of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges filed by US federal prosecutors, marking the beginning of a case that may blow the lid off the El Salvador government’s secret negotiations with the gang. Élmer Canales Rivera, alias...
12/11/2023
Before the shift in the State Department’s stance towards Nayib Bukele’s government, another high-ranking official in Washington, this time from the Republican Party, took charge of diplomatic affairs related to El Salvador. Senator Marco Rubio from...
12/09/2023
That’s it. The license that the Legislative Assembly has granted to Nayib Bukele to be absent from the presidency for six months has completed the fraud on the Constitution to be able to be re-elected. But they could not even do that without committing another...
12/09/2023
How much did the preparation of El Salvador’s representative Isabella García-Manzo cost, daughter of a couple of entrepreneurs who have done business with Ernesto Castro, the president of the Assembly, and the Bukele brothers? How were the revenues generated...
12/08/2023
On 9 February 2020, Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele, flanked by soldiers, stormed the Legislative Assembly because it would not approve a multimillion-dollar loan for military equipment. Minutes later, he told a crowd outside the chamber that he could have the...
12/07/2023
The approach between Nayib Bukele’s government in San Salvador and Joe Biden’s government in Washington had already begun in April of this year, following the spring meetings at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The thawing process has...