El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele sat down for an interview with TIME in his office at the Casa Presidencial in San Salvador on June 25. Bukele, who won re-election in February with 84% of the vote, had just begun his second term. He discussed his government’s...
Mr. Orellana is a merchant who was a victim of gangs for two decades and has been detained for the past eight months under the state of exception at the Izalco prison in Sonsonate, where the State keeps him incarcerated due to supposed ties to his tormentors: the Mara...
The right-wing celebrities attended the swearing-in ceremony at the Salvadoran National Palace, joined in the sumptuous black-tie dinner that followed and posed for numerous photos with Bukele, who wore a gold-embroidered black suit somewhere between a military...
For more than two years, the 26-year-old tractor driver has been in prison in El Salvador, accused of “gang association”, even though the country’s legal system has twice ordered his immediate release. Despite two judges’ clearly worded decisions in his favour, Mr...
Various organizations announced this Friday that on September 15, Independence Day, they will take to the streets of San Salvador to demand the release of innocent people captured under the state of exception, as well as to address the multiple setbacks in human...
The credit rating agency Fitch Ratings published an analysis this Friday, noting that the recent discussions between El Salvador and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) seem to have made an IMF program more probable, but “significant obstacles” still...
