The fiercest voices of dissent against President Nayib Bukele have long feared a widespread crackdown. They weathered police raids on their homes, watched their friends being thrown into jail and jumped between safe houses so they can stay in El Salvador. Then they...
In his work “Death in Wars and Conflicts in the 20th Century,” Professor Milton Leitenberg tallied those killings—of civilians, soldiers, and those deliberately driven to starve or imprisoned—at 231 million. The 75,000 deaths from El Salvador’s civil...
The organization Socorro Jurídico Humanitario (Legal Humanitarian Aid, SJH) announced on its social media channels that from the onset of the state of exception on March 27, 2022, through Sunday, July 20, 2025, it has documented a total of 430 deaths among individuals...
The U.S. State Department has now declassified (from the level of “confidential”) and publicly released the text of three documents pertaining to the “dirty deal” between the United States and El Salvador for the transfer and indefinite detention of alleged members of...
Jorge Rodríguez, Chavismo’s chief negotiator, declared last Saturday in remarks broadcast by state-run Venezolana de Televisión (VTV) that the talks to free 252 Venezuelans involved only the United States. The deal to release 252 Venezuelan migrants imprisoned in El...
In the latest episode of Latin America’s political reality show, Nayib Bukele—the fashion-forward president of El Salvador and self-appointed master of the regional narrative—tried to pull a fast one on social media. This time, he claimed credit for the epic...
