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Magistrates of the Constitutional Chamber of El Salvador’s Supreme Court of Justice, installed by President Nayib Bukele on May 1, ruled last Friday, September 3, to permit consecutive presidential ...
It is Apr. 15, 2025, and the leader of a country of just six million people is dominating headlines far beyond his borders. Yesterday, sitting in the Oval Office, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele ...
Twenty-three members of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), including two leaders accused of acts of terrorism in the United States, were sent by the Donald Trump administration to El Salvador in the early ...
The first construction works on El Salvador’s Pacific Airport, a signature Bukele infrastructure project, have displaced 225 families from the communities of Condadillo and Flor de Mangle, in the ...
After three and a half years of negotiations, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) endorsed a $1.4 billion credit for El Salvador, a country without a separation of powers and which has imposed a ...
Cada verano, la familia de Santos Díaz y otras 18 que conforman la comunidad El Rescate deben racionar el agua para tomar y cocinar. En invierno se abastecen de agua lluvia en unos tanques en los que ...
A day after El Salvador eliminated bitcoin as legal tender, the only government official to have spoken out on the matter entered a huge hotel room in San Salvador packed with cryptocurrency ...
El Salvador, a country with the highest prison population rate in the world and an overcrowding of at least 130 percent, has offered to receive inmates of any nationality who are being held in the ...
On Sunday, the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly voted to extend for 30 days the state of exception that has curbed civil liberties in response to a three-day spike in homicides one month ago. First set ...
When Nayib Bukele began his de facto term in El Salvador on June 1, 2024, among the hundreds of guests at the inauguration ceremony were a Costa Rican newlywed couple already dreaming of becoming the ...
A year and a half has passed since the Inter-American Court of Human Rights heard arguments in Beatriz v. El Salvador. This landmark abortion-access case concerns not only the small Central American ...
Last week, Attorney General Consuelo Porras requested for the sixth time, with characteristic audacity and scarce evidence, that Congress strip Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo’s immunity. But in ...