Authors María Esperanza Casullo and Harry Brown analyze the rise to power of radical leaders supported by discontented societies: ‘Populism is a warning about what has gone wrong in democracy’
The region’s far-right leaders are waging a battle against the gains made by the feminist movement
‘Solito: A Memoir’ by Javier Zamora is a bestseller about his dangerous odyssey from El Salvador to rejoin his parents in the US
President Nayib Bukele, who won a controversial re-election bid earlier this month, affirms that he will not allow ‘gender ideology in schools’
President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro and other populist rulers of this century sell an image of infallibility and invulnerability that is typically found in comic books
The president of El Salvador was re-elected with, it seems, 85% of the votes. The “massive support/thirst for revenge” formula may drag Latin America into its darkest hour
Experts question the lack of ethics and transparency in the content produced by the Mexican YouTuber and other influencers, warning that a large number of followers does not signal that someone is a trusted source
These are some of the lessons that can be learned from three countries with experience of a dollar-based economy if Argentina, Latin America’s third-largest economy, chooses to adopt the currency as legal tender
A shadowy group of Venezuelans with anti-Chavismo roots is deeply embedded in the Salvadoran government and oversaw the president’s successful electoral campaign
Forty thousand children have seen one parent or both detained in President Nayib Bukele’s nearly two-year war on El Salvador’s gangs, according to the national social services agency
Bukele has extremely high levels of popular support in El Salvador. But the president is preparing for when the people grow tired: he has increased the ranks of the Armed Forces and is promising to double its size in five years
EL PAÍS visits the Terrorism Confinement Center, the maximum-security mega-prison that El Salvador’s president inaugurated a year ago amid the country’s war on gangs
Behind the bars of the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot) are El Salvador’s most dangerous inmates: hitmen who have committed dozens of murders and are serving sentences of 700 years. Every cell is full, and the authorities refuse to specify the number of people incarcerated at this facility
The president has achieved results in terms of security, but now faces structural problems
The president pulverized the opposition in the elections and has all the necessary support to implement his policies
Nayib Bukele’s overwhelming victory has occurred in the context of a serious deterioration of the rule of law
The president says he has achieved a landslide victory in the elections after having put an end to the country’s violent gangs
An indefinite state of exception in El Salvador violates the fundamental rights of some in exchange for relative and temporary tranquility of others
The president of El Salvador began his political career as a small-town mayor, realizing his destiny for power.
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
Any Salvadoran citizen who is in the United States can vote online for the 2024 Election until February 4
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
A former Barrio 18 gang leader swindled a high-ranking police chief in a fake plot to have a Mexican drug cartel abduct Elmer Canales Rivera, alias ‘Crook,’ according to an investigation by ‘El Faro’
The president is set to be re-elected next Sunday thanks to his great popularity in the country, where he is esteemed for taking down the gangs despite the high cost to human rights
With 40 homicides per 100,000 people and crime rates at a historic high, the country hopes that President Daniel Noboa’s project will bring an end to the violence
Carlos Hernández’s documentary portrays some of the reasons that have led 19,000 children and adolescents a year to seek a better life in the United States
Two centuries after the speech that inaugurated the United States’ policy toward the region, five Democratic lawmakers call for an end to the Cuban embargo and the declassification of secret CIA files, as well as reforms to the IMF and the OAS
