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...
VAMOS party deputy, Claudia Ortiz, presented an initiative on Tuesday requesting the creation of an Anti-Truce Commission, to investigate the release of Elmer Canales, alias “Crook,” a leader of MS who was detained in El Salvador but was clandestinely...
@revistafactum #EditorialFactum | 🔴La realidad paralela del Bukelismo pretende que celebremos la belleza siempre que olvidemos que la economía no invita al optimismo, que en las cárceles miles de inocentes siguen detenidos, que el circo garantiza la reelección y que...
There’s a lot of noise in El Salvador. On the eve of the presidential elections of February 2024, there’s a lot of smoke in El Salvador. The official machinery supporting President Nayib Bukele is working at full capacity: paid commentators flood the grids...
