The next secretary of state, known for his tough stance on countries such as Cuba, is expected to put the region at the center of his agenda
The report, which elicited a furious response from the president and his brother, details the acquisition of 34 new properties valued at $9 million during the first five years of his administration
The new director of Amnesty International in the Americas has criticized the use of the military and heavy-handed measures to combat crime in the region: ‘The Armed Forces are not trained to ensure public safety’
Mexico will take Ecuador embassy raid to the International Court of Justice and asks the United Nations to suspend the Andean nation
The president has taken risks that were not well received by investors and foreign governments, such as making Bitcoin legal tender
In an interview with EL PAÍS, the Chilean head of state reviews his time in office and addresses his political future. ‘The depth of the changes we imagined went against the grain of what the majority of people wanted. We changed our priorities and our speed, but not our principles,’ he says, at the halfway point of his administration
The president, who began his political career under the wing of the leftist group, now wants to erase it from the political map, but analysts see a ‘rescue of the party’s revolutionary principles’ as possible
Dissenting voices like legislator Claudia Ortiz are vital in a country where democracy has been tossed out like a Christmas tree in January
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’
Candidates from all over the world — Trump in the U.S., Bolsonaro in Brazil, Maduro in Venezuela — seek to reach or stay in power for one main reason: it is the only way to avoid ending up in jail
The region’s far-right leaders are waging a battle against the gains made by the feminist movement
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
EL PAÍS visited one of the penitentiaries that President Daniel Noboa is trying to control — thus far unsuccessfully — by applying Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele’s approach
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
When you look at Latin American history, the way in which the Salvadoran leader has won his re-election bid and amassed power isn’t much different from how several other Latin American autocrats have operated. Batista, Somoza, Trujillo, Fujimori, Ortega and Chávez are just some examples of strongmen from the past century
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.