Salvadoran photojournalist Diego Rosales, arrested Friday by Interpol in Seville, Spain, while seeking asylum, was released this Saturday, the EFE news agency confirmed. María Tardón, presiding judge of Central Investigating Court No. 3 at the Audiencia Nacional,...
The Twitter/X bio of El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, as of December 2025, reads “Philosopher King.” In the past, it read, “The world’s coolest dictator.” This unabashed public recognition of authoritarianism is unique. For example, even after the death of...
2025 was no auspicious milestone on the calendar. During the first year of Donald Trump’s second administration in the United States, democratic ideas and practices further eroded across much of the Western Hemisphere. It was a year that echoed the testimonies...
CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss had a tough message for the executive producer of “60 Minutes” on Saturday: She had decided to hold a segment that was set to run the next day. The story focused on a maximum-security prison in El Salvador where the Trump...
Yesterday, CBS News pulled a story titled “Inside CECOT” just hours before it was set to air. The report examined the Trump administration’s controversial deportation of more than 250 people — most of them Venezuelan nationals — to CECOT, a sprawling prison in El...
During the morning interview on the Elim Church’s En Pleno Día, Senior Pastor Mario Vega maintained that the imprisonment of José Ángel Pérez—a church member and community leader—and environmental advocate Alejandro Henríquez was driven by “political criteria.”...
