Selected Articles

Explainer: El Salvador's 2024 Presidential and Legislative Elections - AS/COA 31.01.24 397812
China Ties Work to Bukele’s Advantage in El Salvador’s Upcoming Election - Diplomat 31.01.24 443819
El Salvador's Bukele looks set for landslide election win on gang crackdown - Reuters 30.01.24 397798
El Salvador VP acknowledges mistakes in war on gangs but says country is ‘not a police state’ - AP News 30.01.24 397807
El Salvador voters set to trade democracy for promise of security in presidential election - Conversation 29.01.24 443807
Bukele, the iron fist leader without rival in El Salvador’s elections - El Pais 28.01.24 421297
Video: How Bukele broke the gangs - El Faro 24.01.24 396668
El Salvador's Bukele looks set to cruise to controversial presidential reelection, poll - Reuters 16.01.24 397808
Podcast series: Bukele, el señor de Los sueños (spanish only) - Central 15.01.24 397607
Votes by El Salvador’s diaspora surge, likely boosting President Bukele in elections - AP News 09.01.24 397813
El Salvador's Nayib Bukele Takes His Presidential Reelection Campaign Beyond the Country's Borders - U.S. News 04.01.24 397809
Can Anything Stop El Salvador’s Bitcoin-Loving, Backsliding Leader? - Foreign Policy 02.01.24 397802
El Salvador kicks off election campaigns as incumbent's bid faces criticism over constitutionality - Reuters 03.10.23 376730
Nayib Bukele’s authoritarianism infects Latin American politics - El Pais 21.08.23 376742
El Salvador's leader, criticized internationally for gang crackdown, tells UN it was the right thing - CTV News 19.09.23 376720
Mass Gangster Roundup Made El Salvador as Safe as Canada, Bukele Tells UN - Bloomberg 19.09.23 397794
El Salvador's Bukele shows strong lead for 2024 vote -opinion poll - Reuters 28.08.23 376751
El Salvador's Bukele Shows Strong Lead for 2024 Vote -Opinion Poll - U.S. News 28.08.23 397811
In El Salvador, Workers Fight to Protect Public Services - NACLA 15.08.23 367468
As free press withers in El Salvador, pro-government social media influencers grow in power - AP News 12.08.23 376713
El Salvador sends 8,000 troops, police to rural province in gang crackdown - Al Jazeera 02.08.23 363480
Little interest from young people in elections in El Salvador - Prensa Latina English 01.08.23 376749
El Salvador clears way for mass trials as crackdown on gangs ramps up - Guardian 27.07.23 376740
El Salvador’s Congress votes to allow mass trials in gang crackdown - Al Jazeera 26.07.23 376716
Inside the growing cult of El Salvador's Nayib Bukele, Latin America's political star - Yahoo News 25.07.23 376722
Salvadoran government accused of doctoring true extent of Covid deaths - Guardian 19.07.23 376715
El Salvador's secretive mega-jail - BBC 14.07.23 359126
Salvadoran President Bukele's party names him as 2024 candidate - Reuters 10.07.23 376741
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele nominated for reelection despite constitutional questions - AP News 09.07.23 376738
Nayib Bukele seeks to extend his time in power - El Pais 09.07.23 376744
Video: El secretismo que rodea al Cecot, la megacárcel símbolo de la guerra de Bukele contra las pandillas - BBC 06.07.23 358030
El Salvador's president registers for reelection despite constitutional objections - CTV News 26.06.23 376725
El Salvador's President Is Running for Reelection, Though Critics Say the Constitution Prohibits Him - U.S. News 26.06.23 376745
El Salvador week with Central American games and twisted politics - Prensa Latina 17.06.23 376727
El Salvador slashes size of Congress ahead of elections - Reuters 07.06.23 376739
In El Salvador, Bukele pledges prison for white-collar criminals like the one for gangs - NBC 02.06.23 376721
El Salvador president pledges white-collar prison in 'war' on corruption - Reuters 02.06.23 376743
El Salvador’s Opposition Eyes a Long-Shot Coalition to Unseat Bukele - WPR 01.06.23 376736
Fragmented forces in El Salvador for elections - Prensa Latina English 30.05.23 376753
Ex-El Salvador president sentenced to 14 years for negotiating with gangs - NBC 29.05.23 376723
El Salvador ex-president sentenced to 14 years over gang talks - Al Jazeera 29.05.23 376734
El Salvador gangs: Derelict gang houses given to locals - BBC 28.05.23 348118
El Salvador gangs: Mass arrests bring calm but at what price? - BBC 19.05.23 346813
El Salvador president blasts Trump indictment: 'Just imagine if this happened in any other country' - Fox News 25.04.23 376718
El Salvador country profile - BBC 03.04.23 376714
El Salvador committing ‘systematic’ abuses in gang purge: Amnesty - Al Jazeera 03.04.23 376719
El Salvador: One year into state of emergency, authorities are systematically committing human rights violations - Amnesty International 03.04.23 376732
Salvadorans in poll favor Bukele for re-election despite constitutional ban - NBC 15.03.23 376754
El Salvador’s false dilemma - CNN 11.03.23 376717
Bukele Has Delivered El Salvador to the Military He Once Defied - WPR 10.03.23 376733
Why El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele wants everyone to know about his new prison - CNN 07.03.23 333733
Bukele’s ‘Cool Authoritarian’ Model Makes for a Dangerous Export - World Politics Review 06.03.23 333726
El Salvador’s massive new prison and the strongman behind it, explained - Vox 05.03.23 333727
Mothers in El Salvador wonder if their imprisoned sons will ever be released - NPR 03.03.23 333731
Why human rights groups are calling out El Salvador's new mega prison - CBC 28.02.23 333730
Photos: Inside El Salvador’s new ‘mega prison’ for gang members - Al Jazeera 27.02.23 333734
El Salvador’s president is flaunting a new mega prison. Activists are worried. - WashigtonPost 26.02.23 332382
Thousands of tattooed inmates pictured in El Salvador mega-prison - BBC 25.02.23 332225
US assures the government of El Salvador negotiated a vote with gangs - Prensa Latina 25.02.23 376746
Video: El Salvador moves 2,000 alleged gang members to new ‘mega prison’ - Al Jazeera 25.02.23 333740
El Salvador crackdown breaks the gangs – at huge cost to human rights - Guardian 20.02.23 330709
El Salvador prisoner ‘rearrests’ fuel new concerns - Al Jazeera 17.02.23 330324
How El Salvador’s Bitcoin-Loving President Won Over Wall Street - Bloomberg 16.02.23 333732
El Salvador Vows Gang Crackdown Will Go on as Citizens Cheer Safer Streets - U.S. News 15.02.23 376735
Hostile Attacks, Surveillance a Threat to El Salvador's Media - VOA 15.02.23 333729
El Salvador extends special powers in fight against gangs - AP 15.02.23 333728
Human rights complaints mount against Bukele’s state of exception in El Salvador - WSWS 13.02.23 330484
Hundreds of Children Packed in El Salvador's Overcrowded Prisons -Rights Group - U.S. News 27.01.23 327145
Bukele Says El Salvador Paid Full $800 Million of Debt Due - Bloomberg 24.01.23 327012
El Salvador says it paid maturing $800 million bond - AP 24.01.23 327011
El Salvador Says It Has Repaid $800 Million Bond Maturing January - U.S. News 23.01.23 327013
Video: Investors Watch Bukele’s Twitter as El Salvador Bond Matures - Bloomberg 22.01.23 333741
El Salvador passes law on cryptocurrency transfers - Al Jazeera 12.01.23 324538
El Salvador renews state of emergency as gang crackdown continues - Al Jazeera 12.01.23 327010
El Salvador Passes Law Allowing Bitcoin Bond Issuance - Bloomberg 11.01.23 327017
El Salvador Murders Plummet by Over Half in 2022 Amid Gang Crackdown - U.S. News 03.01.23 327018
In El Salvador, a tough anti-gang crackdown proves popular - AP 27.12.22 327015
El Salvador's Congress Approves Pension System Reforms - U.S. News 21.12.22 327090
El Salvador has arrested 2% of its adult population in its war on gangs. Other countries are taking note - CNN 15.12.22 333735
El Salvador crackdown could prompt gangs to ‘adapt and reshuffle’ - Al jazeera 12.12.22 327031
El Salvador: Widespread Abuses Under State of Emergency - HRW 07.12.22 327020
“We Can Arrest Anyone We Want” - HRW 07.12.22 327155
The people caught up in the gang crackdown - BBC 04.12.22 332381
Thousands of troops surround city in gang crackdown - BBC 04.12.22 327035
El Salvador Deploys Thousands of Troops to Combat Gangs - Bloomberg 03.12.22 327047
Trolls, propaganda and fear stoke Bukele's media machine in El Salvador - Reuters 29.11.22 327032
El Salvador to repurchase more of its debt - AP 29.11.22 327050
State Department says Salvadorans' attempts to 'directly influence' a U.S. congressional election are 'unacceptable' - NBC 28.11.22 376724
El Salvador announces new anti-gang measures - AP 23.11.22 327055
China circles El Salvador’s economy as country edges toward crypto plunge - Guardian 15.11.22 315797
Errant Remark on China Rescuing El Salvador Shows Pressure on Xi - Bloomberg 11.11.22 327072
El Salvador’s Bitcoin Holdings Lose 60% of Their Value in Crypto Selloff - Bloomberg 10.11.22 327068
El Salvador president says US now feels less safe than his third-world country: 'It's unthinkable' - Fox News 05.11.22 327119
El Salvador’s $300 Million Bitcoin ‘Revolution’ Is Failing Miserably - Bloomberg 04.11.22 327054
El Salvador’s Slide Toward Authoritarianism - NACLA 02.11.22 315778
El Salvador fights gangs by destroying members’ tombstones - AP 02.11.22 327058
Prison deaths mount in El Salvador's gang crackdown - AP News 24.10.22 312004
Salvador President Bukele's reelection bid worries L.A. - LA Times 21.10.22 312006
El Salvador President Bukele’s reelection bid stokes L.A. immigrants’ fears of new civil war - L.A. Times 21.10.22 327059
El Salvador: 55,000 suspected gang members arrested since March - Al Jazeera 15.10.22 312007