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...
The portion of the El Espino estate that the Legislative Assembly approved to transfer for the new Centro Internacional de Ferias y Convenciones (CIFCO) project is not zoned as “developable”—as Nuevas Ideas asserted to justify the property transfer—but is...
After 125 days in El Salvador’s maximum-security prison, the group of Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States is due to touch down in Caracas this Friday. The Venezuelan government has confirmed the release of all 252 migrant citizens. “They were kidnapped...
Cristosal, El Salvador’s foremost human rights organization, has halted its operations in the Central American nation and been compelled into exile amid unrelenting pressure from President Nayib Bukele’s administration. This was confirmed to EL PAÍS on Wednesday by...
A federal judge on Long Island chided the Justice Department on Wednesday for trying to “avoid public scrutiny” of its attempts to drop criminal charges against a high-ranking member of the violent street gang MS-13 and quickly deport him to El Salvador, his homeland....
In the span of a year and a half, the Sala de lo Constitucional (Constitutional Chamber) of the Corte Suprema de Justicia (Supreme Court of Justice, CSJ) has released eleven rulings; none of them resolved a criminal-law dispute in favor of the petitioning citizens....
