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
On the occasion of her participation in the National Summit of Elected Women of Colombia, organized by U.N. Women, the former president of Chile talks about what it is like to be a woman in politics, the humanitarian tragedy in Gaza and the authoritarian drift in Latin America
The leader has been granted leave for six months so that he can begin campaigning for the February 4 elections
Human rights organization Cristosal tallied 153 incarceration deaths during the first year of the state of emergency. No victim had yet been convicted, the group said
People who have suffered attacks because of their sexual or gender identity and were welcomed in Mexico see their stories reflected in the exhibition ‘Doors of Hope’
Today, bananas have lost their capacity for extortion in favor of agroindustries and open-pit mining concessions, but above all drug trafficking
The winner is a 23-year-old communicologist and says she wants to work to promote mental health after suffering debilitating bouts of anxiety herself
Why bother with democracy when (according to the propaganda machine) all a country like El Salvador needs is the ‘right’ leadership?
Friday’s Board of Governors should ensure a transparent and fair selection process to appoint a leader capable of restoring confidence and transparency to the bank
Almost half of countries have suffered setbacks in the democratic process in the last five years, according to the IDEA organization, which however highlights growing citizen participation
The Salvadoran leader is seeking a second term in office, despite the fact that it is expressly prohibited by the Constitution of the Central American country
Mexico’s president convenes 12 nations for talks on debt reduction and regional cooperation on trade, security and employment
Dozens of activists have been arrested and accused of being gang members in El Salvador, in what social organizations say is a politically motivated campaign
