El Salvador in EL PAÍS English (2024)

The president has taken risks that were not well received by investors and foreign governments, such as making Bitcoin legal tender

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’

The region’s far-right leaders are waging a battle against the gains made by the feminist movement

‘Solito: A Memoir’ by Javier Zamora is a bestseller about his dangerous odyssey from El Salvador to rejoin his parents in the US

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

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

Experts question the lack of ethics and transparency in the content produced by the Mexican YouTuber and other influencers, warning that a large number of followers does not signal that someone is a trusted source

These are some of the lessons that can be learned from three countries with experience of a dollar-based economy if Argentina, Latin America’s third-largest economy, chooses to adopt the currency as legal tender

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.

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

Any Salvadoran citizen who is in the United States can vote online for the 2024 Election until February 4

Although the laws remain unchanged, 73 women regained their freedom, protocols have been created to care for obstetric emergencies and guarantee medical secrecy, while the judges who try these cases now have a precedent to avoid handing down unjust convictions

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’