Bukele: The time of vengeance
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
Bukele: what ‘model’ are we talking about?
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
Nayib Bukele’s hidden cabinet
A shadowy group of Venezuelans with anti-Chavismo roots is deeply embedded in the Salvadoran government and oversaw the president’s successful electoral campaign
The president jailed 1% of El Salvador’s population. Their children are paying the consequences
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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
A dictatorship is born
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
Inside Nayib Bukele’s Alcatraz: ‘It is impossible to escape. These psychopaths are going to spend their whole lives behind bars here’
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
Photos: A tour of Nayib Bukele’s mega-prison
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
How to fix a struggling economy: Bukele’s new challenge in El Salvador
The president has achieved results in terms of security, but now faces structural problems
Bukele expands his power in El Salvador: The era of the single party and the single leader is born
The president pulverized the opposition in the elections and has all the necessary support to implement his policies
Authoritarian drift in El Salvador
Nayib Bukele’s overwhelming victory has occurred in the context of a serious deterioration of the rule of law
Bukele brushes aside criticism after claiming 85% of the vote: ‘This is the first time in history that El Salvador has democracy’
The president says he has achieved a landslide victory in the elections after having put an end to the country’s violent gangs
Bukele re-elected: the victory of violence
Laura Aguirre|
An indefinite state of exception in El Salvador violates the fundamental rights of some in exchange for relative and temporary tranquility of others
Nayib Bukele’s origin story: a millennial’s ambition
The president of El Salvador began his political career as a small-town mayor, realizing his destiny for power.
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
El Salvador elections 2024: How can Salvadorans vote from the US
Any Salvadoran citizen who is in the United States can vote online for the 2024 Election until February 4
How a Salvadoran gangster duped the Bukele government with a fake scheme to catch an MS-13 fugitive wanted by the US
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’
Bukele, the iron fist leader without rival in El Salvador’s elections
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
From drug routes to Bukele’s influence: Keys to the security crisis in Ecuador
The violence sweeping the country has intensified after two criminals operating for the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation cartels escaped prison
Prison ships and ‘Bukele model’ jails in Ecuador, a security plan adrift
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
2023, the year of the anti-immigration offensive
In the last twelve months, we have witnessed the political and regulatory tightening of the worst impulses against migrants around the world. It will be difficult for us to reverse this drift
Bukele places personal secretary as interim president as he runs for reelection in El Salvador
The leader has been granted leave for six months so that he can begin campaigning for the February 4 elections
Detainees in El Salvador’s gang crackdown cite abuse during months in jail
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
Miss Nicaragua Sheynnis Palacios wins Miss Universe crown
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
Miss Universe pageant takes the spotlight off Bukele’s looming dictatorship
María Luz Nóchez|
Why bother with democracy when (according to the propaganda machine) all a country like El Salvador needs is the ‘right’ leadership?
Next Central American Bank President crucial for rights in the region
JUANITA GOEBERTUS ESTRADA|
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
Carolina Jiménez, human rights specialist: ‘In Latin America, there are still more opportunities for democratic promotion than in other parts of the world’
The president of the Washington Office on Latin America notes that the strength of civil society and committed youth are encouraging signs in the region. This is despite the drop in the democratic model’s popularity, a trend that has been observed in numerous surveys
A successful ‘anti-Bukele’ criminal justice model in Costa Rica
The Central American nation is pioneering a restorative system that prioritizes rehabilitation over prison
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