On October 5th, a new newscast started broadcasting on a State channel to report the government’s activities. ARPAS editorial offers the following analysis: Nayib Bukele (…) has managed to impose himself on the agenda and in the public debate thanks to the intensive use of social media and the condescension of most traditional media, especially […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) Democratic members of the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States, led by the chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affair, Eliot L. Engel, released, this Thursday, September 10, a letter in which they express their “deep concern regarding (the Salvadoran) government’s increased hostility towards independent and […]
El Faro has published an editorial regarding president Bukele’s confrontation with independent and critical media. El Salvador celebrates the day of the journalist on August 31st. Since rising to power, Bukele has created an alternate reality where he is the sole defender of the people against those he calls “the same as usual”, a […]
On Saturday, June 20, President Nayib Bukele reported the destitution of Jorge “Koky” Aguilar, the president of the Environmental Fund of El Salvador (FONAES). An article published by Cecibel Romero had previously revealed that his company INSEMA had been awarded a $250,000 dollars contract with the Ministry of Health to provide protection masks amid the […]
El Faro is publishing the story of Carlos Henríquez, who caught COVID19 after being sent to “The Olympic Village” (Villa Olimpica), a containment center run by the government. The Ministry of Health tweeted wrong facts about his death a few days ago. The original article written by Carlos Dada in Spanish can (and should) be […]
The magistrates of the First Criminal Chamber concluded that Judge Eduardo Jaime Escalante did not commit the crime of sexual assault, despite the fact that it was documented the touching of the genital area of a child under 10 years old, because the facts indicated it took place on a “public road”, briefly, without violence […]