There has been a complete reversal of the public discourse from the US State Department towards El Salvador. The change appears to coincide with the arrival of the current ambassador William Duncan in January 2023. To understand how dramatic this shift has been,...
Anonymous is the most dedicated troll of all. On July 12, for example, he finished his Twitter day at 1:10 a.m. Four and a half hours later, still in the early morning, he continued praising the state of exception, the most popular and human rights-violating measure...
The human rights organization Tutela Legal “María Julia Hernández” has denounced the expropriation of land by government entities from survivors of the El Mozote massacre, in which the Salvadoran Army executed around 1,000 civilians in 1981, violating an...
Luis Parada and Celia Medrano submitted their application to run for a presidential ticket for the internal elections of the political party Nuestro Tiempo, announced Parada through social media. The party’s director, Andy Failer, had already confirmed the...
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele stood before tens of thousands of boisterous sports fans with a message: I am not a dictator. “They say we live in a dictatorship,” Bukele declared, but “ask the bus passengers; go to a restaurant and ask the...
On May 30, 2023, at 12:35 noon, four anti-narcotics agents captured Wilfredo Hernández Molina for facilitating the exit of accused drug traffickers from the Mariona prison and also for allowing family members to visit them. Hernández Molina, known as Wilfredo Ostorga...