Tag Archives: News from El Salvador

Results of the State of exception / Resultados del estado de excepción

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO)   After the Nayib Bukele administration declared a state of emergency on March 27 in response to the rise in homicides over a weekend, several human rights violations have been reported. In addition to the unjustified raid on PROCOMES yesterday (April 20) and the reports of arrest “quotas” imposed on police officers […]

El Salvador’s State of Emergency: Opinion Piece from Al Jazeera News

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) El Salvador: A state of emergency indeed With a new state of emergency, any residual hint of civil liberties has been suspended in ‘the world’s coolest dictatorship’. Belen Fernandez Contributing editor at Jacobin Magazine. Published On 6 Apr 20226 Apr 2022 Read post on Al Jazeera News Here On Saturday, March 26, […]

Update on the state of emergency in El Salvador / Estado de excepción en El Salvador

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO)   The Salvadoran government headed by Nayib Bukele declared a state of emergency on March 27, 2022 after 87 murders took place throughout El Salvador. The situation has called into question the effectiveness of the famous Territorial Control Plan, whose phases have never been fully explained to the population. The president pressured […]

Soldiers driving public transportation in El Salvador

(PUBLICADO ORIGINALMENTE POR LA PRENSA GRÁFICA) Military personnel drive units of routes 42 and 152 confiscated from Catalino Miranda, and the Government announces the hiring of drivers.   On Saturday, the Government announced the capture of  transport businessman Catalino Miranda and removal of permits to drive 42 and 152 routes managed by his company ACOSTES. […]

CONFRAS forecasts less cultivated area and less food for El Salvador this year

(PUBLICADO ORIGINALMENTE POR DIARIO CO-LATINO)   The Confederation of Federations of the Salvadoran Agrarian Reform (CONFRAS) considers that this year there will be a decrease in the national production of basic grains and vegetables, given the increased cost of inputs for agricultural production and little government support. They say that this, in turn, will generate […]

Mothers search en masse for their missing children

(ARTICULO DE FACTUM DISPONIBLE EN ESPAÑOL AQUÍ) An article written by Gerson Najera   Relatives and friends of victims of forced disappearance have gathered in a block to demand respect and an immediate response from the Government to the reports of disappearances. “I ask the president (Nayib Bukele) to be empathic. What if it was […]

About the clandestine graves in El Salvador

(LEA EL ORIGINAL EN ESPAÑOL AQUÍ)   This is a translation of an Op Ed written by José María Tojeira, former dean of the Central American University (UCA):   The great massacres almost always required clandestine graves. Many of them were discovered after the wars that provoked such killings. This is how the Nazis acted […]

Internal crisis in the Supreme Court

Fitch Ratings has downgraded El Salvador’s Long-Term Foreign Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to ‘CCC’. In Fitch’s view, weakening of institutions and concentration of power in the presidency have increased policy unpredictability, and the adoption of bitcoin as legal tender has added uncertainty about the potential for an IMF program that would unlock financing for […]

9F: Two years after Bukele entered the legislative assembly with the army

Several citizens took to the streets today to remember that two years ago the current president forcibly entered the Legislative Assembly to pressure the members of Congress into approving a loan for his “Territorial Control Plan” This is what LA PRENSA GRAFICA reports: The Salvadoran Coordinator of Popular Movements and the Popular Resistance and Rebellion […]

Tras el desplome de Bitcoin, El Salvador apuesta su economía a comprar cuando el mercado está bajo

(READ THE ORIGINAL HERE)   Traducción del artículo escrito por Camille Squires & Scott Nover   El precio de Bitcoin ha caído un 43% desde su máximo en noviembre de 2021. El presidente de El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, está comprando la caída. Como uno de los mayores promotores de las criptomonedas, Bukele ha convertido al […]