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Beware the Ides of April: Nayib Bukele Exports Contempt for the Law
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 ...
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Lessons on Sovereignty, from Guantánamo to El Salvador
According to a recent report in the U.S. news site Politico, Nayib Bukele's visit to the White House may include discussion of a plan for El Salvador to cede part of its territory to the United States ...
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US Wife of CECOT Deportee: “He was seeking asylum… Sometimes I think he’s dead”
Jesús Alberto Ríos Andrade, one of the Venezuelans sent by the Donald Trump administration to the Terrorist Confinement Center in El Salvador, is married to a U.S. citizen. When he was detained on ...
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El Salvador's Police Kill and Lie Again
The official story of El Salvador's police department fell apart again in the face of testimony from direct witnesses. The police say they killed four pandilleros (gang members) in a shootout in a ...
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Former Soldiers from Atlacatl Battalion Testify against Superiors in El Mozote Case
“The people there weren’t armed. They were just women, children, and the elderly!” said key witness Sol. “I didn’t report this earlier because if I did, they would kill me,” said key witness Juan. In ...
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For Sale in Bukele’s Prisons: Calls, Letters, Conjugal Visits
In April 2022, a woman received a WhatsApp message explaining the terms to visit a relative detained in Mariona Prison: “Be discreet. Don't comment on social media or to anyone because we’re putting ...
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El regreso de la minería a El Salvador despierta a una Iglesia Católica callada
El 24 de marzo, en el 45 aniversario del asesinato de monseñor Óscar Arnulfo Romero, los movimientos sociales marcharon hasta la Corte Suprema de San Salvador portando una pancarta del icónico ...
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Reflexiones históricas sobre Guantánamo y El Salvador
De acuerdo con un reportaje reciente en el periódico estadounidense Politico, la visita a la Casa Blanca de Nayib Bukele puede incluir la discusión de un plan para que El Salvador ceda parte de su ...
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El Faro’s Carlos Barrera Wins World Press Photo for Coverage of State of Exception in El Salvador
The work Life and Death in a Country without Constitutional Rights, by El Faro photojournalist Carlos Barrera, has won the 2025 World Press Photo award in the Long-Term Projects category in the North ...
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Embajador Johnson: “No dudo que pudo haberse usado Pegasus en El Salvador”
Ronald Johnson, embajador de Estados Unidos en El Salvador de 2019 a 2021, afirmó ante el Senado de Estados Unidos que, durante su tiempo en San Salvador, “no dudo que pudo haber” un uso del software ...
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Empleados capitalinos denunciaron a concejal por usar recursos públicos para construir su casa
Ocho empleados de la Alcaldía de San Salvador denunciaron que Carlos Rodríguez, cuando era concejal y presidente de la Junta Directiva del Instituto Municipal de Juventud (IMJ), les cobraba cuotas, ...