By: Staff Writer April 9, 2024 Nayib Bukele’s administration is offering 5,000 passports to highly skilled foreign workers in an effort to boost the El Salvadorian economy with foreign investment.…
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OAS Observation Mission in El Salvador for Municipal and PARLACEN Elections Begins Deployment
March 1, 2024 The Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) for the elections for municipal offices and deputies to the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN) on March…
Bukele officially confirmed President in El Salvador
By: Staff Writer February 13, 2024 Nayib Bukele has officially been confirmed as President of El Salvador for his second consecutive term riding off of his popular gang crackdown. Some…
Bukele returned as president of El Salvador
By: Staff Writer February 5, 2024 President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele handily won re-election despite not all of the votes being counted as yet. The self-proclaimed “world’s coolest dictator”,…
Global Times: China-aided library applauded as new cultural landmark for El Salvador
January 12, 2024 The China-aided mega modern library, located in the historic center of El Salvador’s capital San Salvador, will not only help to propel educational, cultural, and technological development in the country, but…
New report says Bukele gang crackdown “crippled” gangs in El Salvador
By: Staff Writer December 12, 2023 An Insight Crime investigative report details how El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has “crippled” the notorious gang culture in that country despite critics of…
El Salvador Frees ‘Terrorist’ Johana Flores
By: Insight Crime December 5, 2023 Despite her release, Dalila Johana Flores remains a symbol of the arbitrary acts being committed under El Salvador’s state of emergency. Johana, a 24-year-old…
El Salvador Police Reports Contradict Bukele’s Triumphalism
October 3, 2023 More than a dozen confidential reports from El Salvador’s National Civil Police obtained by InSight Crime reveal that, although “weakened” after a year and a half under…
OAS and El Salvador sign agreement in benefit of returned children and adolescents and their families
September 26, 2023 The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (GS/OAS) and the Government of the Republic of El Salvador, through the National Council for Early Childhood, Children…
El Salvador’s Gangbusters
By: Staff Writer August 8, 2023 With El Salvador’s presidential election slated for next year February, its President, Nayib Bukele is seeking a second term on the strength of his…
El Salvador’s gang crackdown- too much?
By: Staff Writer June 6, 2023 President Nayib Bukele has brutally crushed most of the criminals gangs in El Salvador, with many of its citizens in favour of the harsh…
Is Nayib Bukele’s ‘Iron Fist’ in El Salvador Working?
By: InsightCrime February 14, 2023 After the influential and well-sourced publication El Faro declared that El Salvador’s controversial President Nayib Bukele had “disarticulate(d)” the country’s gangs, is it time to…