Bukele claims his ill-gotten throne in El Salvador
Dissenting voices like legislator Claudia Ortiz are vital in a country where democracy has been tossed out like a Christmas tree in January
Bukele’s crooked electoral rules
Democracy is a concept so poorly explained, badly understood and, for many people in El Salvador, so useless, that it is easy to believe that elections like the one coming up on Sunday are free and democratic
In El Salvador, a victory for women who were jailed under the country’s draconian anti-abortion laws
Although the laws remain unchanged, 73 women regained their freedom, protocols have been created to care for obstetric emergencies and guarantee medical secrecy, while the judges who try these cases now have a precedent to avoid handing down unjust convictions