With more than 8,000 soldiers: Bukele “closes” Soyapango to “remove all the gang members one by one” | International

A contingent of 8,500 soldiers and 1,500 police officers surrounded the city of Soyapango to “remove the gang members one by one,” said the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele. The country has been in a State of Exception since March, which has allowed -according to government figures- to capture 58,000 people linked to criminal … Read more

Eduardo Frei among them: Bukele calls former presidents who oppose his re-election “looters” | International

The possibility of Bukele being re-elected for a second consecutive term in 2024 was opened in September 2021, when a questioned Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice modified a criterion for interpreting article 152 of the Magna Carta that had been issued in 2014. The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, severely criticized … Read more

Bukele will go for re-election as president of El Salvador after a controversial constitutional decision | International

After the Constitutional Chamber, elected by its allies, issued a ruling in 2021 that changed the criteria for re-election; The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, announced that he will seek a new term as president. the president of The Savior, Nayib Bukeleannounced this Thursday night, within the framework of the anniversary of the independence … Read more

El Salvador’s economy loses millions but continues to bet on bitcoin

Published on : 06/09/2022 – 18:42 A year after its introduction as legal tender in El Salvador, alongside the dollar, bitcoin is playing on the nerves of Salvadorans. The government had spent several million dollars to buy cryptocurrency, but with the vertiginous fall of bitcoin afterwards, it lost half of it. The consequences could become … Read more

Bukele responds to Boric: “The important thing is (…) if Chileans feel identified with him” | International

The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, responded to the words of his Chilean counterpart, Gabriel Boric, assuring that “the important thing is not that he does not feel identified with me, but if my Chilean brothers feel identified with him.” The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, referred this Wednesday to the president of … Read more

El Salvador: Communities Reject the Construction of a “Giant” Prison for Gang Members on Their Land

Inhabitants of various communities in the department of San Vicente, in The Savior, protested and rejected this Monday the construction of a “gigantic” prison for assumptions gang members captured during the emergency regime of Nayib Bukeleimplemented in the country to combat the maras. According to local press reports, residents of the municipality of Tecoluca, in … Read more

How Nayib Bukele’s popularity remains “immune” to criticism of authoritarianism | International

Chosen under the image of “presidente millenial”, the young president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, celebrated this June 1 its first three years in power. His controversial and dubious merciless war against gang members and his criticized authoritarian measures contrast with the highest degree of approval that the president awakens in the population. Despite the … Read more

Thousands of families sleep rough in El Salvador: they wait for suspected gang members to be arrested | International

A group of women with a month-old baby improvise a space with plastic to cover themselves from the sun, from the rain, rest and sleep on the sidewalk, in front of a prison in El Salvador. They, like thousands of people, are waiting for their relatives, arrested under the emergency regime decreed since March 27, … Read more