El Salvador Perspectives
News, history, culture and analysis of El Salvador and the Salvadoran people.| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
News, history, culture and analysis of El Salvador and the Salvadoran people.| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
News, history, culture and analysis of El Salvador and the Salvadoran people.| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
Family remittances sent to El Salvador set a monthly record in May of almost $900 million. The flow of dollars into El Salvador from those ...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
News, history, culture and analysis of El Salvador and the Salvadoran people.| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
Today we have a collection of links from the international press, covering topics from US deportations to E Salvador, to the hotel industry, to the State of Exception and MS-13.| El Salvador Perspectives
Two opinion polls released in June show president Nayib Bukele continuing to receive high approval ratings from large swaths of the Salvadoran public. A poll released by La Prensa Grafica, one of the country's major newspapers, reported that 85.2% of the public approve of Bukele's performance in office after six years in the presidency. A second poll released by the Institute of Public Opinion at the UCA reported that respondents gave him an average grade of 8.15 on a 0-10 scale for his...| El Salvador Perspectives
Donald Trump has put in place his campaign promise of massive deportation of undocumented persons in the US. Those expulsions included 1600...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
News, history, culture and analysis of El Salvador and the Salvadoran people.| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
Nayib Bukele has just had another of his critics arrested. The government of El Salvador Saturday detained prominent attorney Enrique Anaya. The constitutional lawyer frequently spoke in public and wrote on social media, about the constitution and the rule of law in El Salvador. He has been an outspoken critic of Nayib Bukele's capture of the judicial system in El Salvador and violations of the constitution. Anaya is purportedly being charged with money laundering, and his detention f...| El Salvador Perspectives
On June 1, Nayib Bukele delivered a speech to the nation from the National Theater in San Salvador, on the first anniversary of commencing his unconstitutional second term as president. In a large portion of his address, Bukele described sinister globalist forces who want to thwart his project and return El Salvador to a time of gang-controlled misery. | El Salvador Perspectives
I tried but failed to come up with a good thread to weave these stories from the past week together. Waves . Since last weekend "marea viva...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
News, history, culture and analysis of El Salvador and the Salvadoran people.| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
News, history, culture and analysis of El Salvador and the Salvadoran people.| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
After Nayib Bukele's offer to be Donald Trump's jailer for hire, there is a changing story about El Salvador being told in global media. Bukele the image-maker is now having a tougher time controlling the narrative. There is growing recognition that, behind the veneer of surfing and Bitcoin and tourism growth, exists a regime which is increasingly authoritarian, imprisons tens of thousands without trial or due process in incredibly harsh conditions, and actively represses journalists, hum...| El Salvador Perspectives
The arrest of a prominent anti-corruption lawyer in El Salvador is highlighting the increased willingness of Nayib Bukele's government to ar...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
Today the world is paying attention to Nayib Bukele, the president-jailer who cut a deal with the US to imprison persons the US sought to de...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
Throughout his presidency, Nayib Bukele has craved the media spotlight and has wanted to be portrayed as one of the world's visionary leaders. He has found that images of cruelty to persons alleged to be gang members get him publicity around the world, and lots of it. In April 2020, the global media shared images of half-naked prisoners stacked together like sardines in the very early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, as Bukele vowed revenge for a surge in homicides. The media spotlight would...| El Salvador Perspectives
The government in El Salvador is trying to address years of lackluster macroeconomic performance. Despite all the publicity surrounding tou...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
Izalco prison Last month human rights groups released important reports documenting human rights abuses suffered under the State of Exceptio...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
The former bishop of the Salvadoran Lutheran Church, Medardo Ernesto Gomez Soto died on Thursday, March 27 at the age of 79. He was the first bishop of the Lutheran church in El Salvador, after being consecrated in 1986 during the midst of El Salvador's civil war, and served as bishop until two months ago. Bishop Gomez died after a prolonged period of illness.| El Salvador Perspectives
March 27 is the three year anniversary of the State of Exception in El Salvador. This suspension of constitutional due process protections as part of a war on gangs was adopted by the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly in the midst of a bloody weekend in March 2022 in which gangs murdered at least 87 people around the country. Under the State of Exception, security forces of the police and military can arrest anyone without a warrant or observing them commit a crime, can hold them for 15 days ...| El Salvador Perspectives
There are many developments regarding the US removal of 238 Venezuelans to El Salvador where they were imprisoned in Nayib Bukele's CECOT me...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
In 2019, when he was campaigning for the presidency, Nayib Bukele unveiled plans for a modern international airport in the department of La...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
The weekend of March 15-16 saw the first implementation of Nayib Bukele's offer to the United States to act as the offshore jailers of perso...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
On the morning of February 25, Fidel Zavala was outside of the office of El Salvador's human rights public advocate (PDDH) to denounce the arbitrary arrests four days earlier of two community activists from Hacienda La Floresta. Zavala is spokesperson for a group calling itself the Unit of Defense of Human and Community Rights (UNIDEHC for its initials in Spanish). UNIDEHC is leading a fight against the expulsion of approximately 250 families from their dwellings at La Floresta. | El Salvador Perspectives
A select group of people is getting very rich in today's El Salvador ruled by Nayib Bukele. Using tourism development funds and tax policy measures, the Bukele government is allowing an assortment of real estate developers, crypto-investors, and the Bukele family to acquire significant real estate holdings and wealth. | El Salvador Perspectives
I wrote a few weeks ago about the arrest and death in prison of Nayib Bukele's National Security Adviser, Alejandro Muyshondt. New journal...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
In countries like El Salvador, where values of an authoritarian culture still prevail, these campaigns that praise the virtues of the mi...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
El Salvador's police and security forces were burying eight of their own this week. The director of the National Civilian Police, Mauricio A...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
The government of Nayib Bukele in El Salvador does not like public scrutiny. Since Bukele took office in 2019, access to government and pub...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
Alejandro Muyshondt Days after publicly denouncing a Nuevas Ideas legislator for corruption, Nayib Bukele's national security advisor, Aleja...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
Today the InterAmerican Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) issued a 354 page report titled The State of Exception and Human Rights in El S...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
This article first appeared on the website of InsightCrime with the title Capture of MS13 Leader Exposes US-El Salvador Rift . By Steven D...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
Recent articles in English about El Salvador that are worth perusing:| El Salvador Perspectives
On January 29, 2025, El Salvador's Legislative Assembly passed a resolution extending for the 35th time the State of Exception under which the country's residents have lived since March 27, 2022. There was no debate. There was no evidence presented of the emergency circumstances required by the Salvadoran constitution to justify the suspension of rights to due process in the criminal justice system and warrantless interception of communications. Where would such evidence come from t...| El Salvador Perspectives
Source: FlightAware.com After Nayib Bukele offered to receive not just citizens of El Salvador, but persons from other nations expelled fro...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
Donald Trump's advisor Stephen Miller said a short time ago that president Nayib Bukele was offering the US "tremendous levels of cooperat...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
Measures the Legislative Assembly passed for Nayib Bukele On January 29, El Salvador's Legislative Assembly gave the second vote to adopt a...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
El Salvador news, politics, culture, events with coverage of Nayib Bukele, Nuevas Ideas government and diverse media sources by Tim Muth| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
El Salvador news, politics, culture, events with coverage of Nayib Bukele, Nuevas Ideas government and diverse media sources by Tim Muth| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
One common assertion by proponents of the current State of Exception in El Salvador is that the justice system will correct errors and only ...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
September 2023 parade in Tonacatepeque I do not often write in the first person in this space, but as I develop this series of posts at the ...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
This is the second of my series on the State of Exception in El Salvador as it starts its third year. Today we look at the prisons holding...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
March 27 is the two year anniversary of the State of Exception in El Salvador. This suspension of constitutional due process protections as...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
On February 4, 2023, Salvadorans thought they knew the rules of the game for the coming national elections on February 4, 2024. After all, ...| www.elsalvadorperspectives.com
