La gestión del presidente de El Salvador, Nayib Bukele ha dado pie a la conformación de una propuesta que podríamos denominar el “Modelo Bukele”, en el que, de forma aparente, se ha logrado seducir políticamente a grandes mayorías de nuestra región hasta hacerlas preferir un autoritarismo extremo a cambio de una supuesta seguridad ciudadana. Gracias a una efectiva propaganda, este modelo puede consolidarse como un fenómeno regional en una Nuestra América signada por la violen

The boat strikes have killed nearly 200 people, many of them fishermen. Who will be held accountable? Image of an alleged drug boat seconds before it was destroyed in early May -- image via US Southern Command video on X By Farrah Hassen The U.S. military has been carrying out extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean and Pacific over the past nine months with impunity. On May 8, the U.S. military struck another boat in the eastern Pacific, killing two people and leaving one su

Americans should demand the release of jailed Salvadoran lawyer Ruth Lopez — because it can happen here, too. Nayib Bukele on Salvadoran independence day in 2024 -- PresidenciaSV, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Sulma Arias Who of us has the right to live without fear? This is the question human rights lawyer Ruth Lopez has asked fearlessly in El Salvador — the country of my birth — for decades. It’s a question we all need to ask ourselves in the United States as well. For spea

The administration of El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has given rise to a proposal we might call the ‘Bukele Model,’ in which, on the surface, has managed to politically seduce large majorities in our region to the point of making them prefer extreme authoritarianism in exchange for supposed public safety. Thanks to effective propaganda, this model may establish itself as a regional phenomenon in a ‘Our America’ marked by structural violence, where the promise of immedia

On December 2, 1980, four American Catholic missionaries — Maryknoll Sisters Maura Clarke and Ita Ford, Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel,...

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By Edgardo Ayala - IPS / Globetrotter El Salvador’s efforts to improve the educational level in the country seem to be falling short,...

Translated from the Spanish statement of the PCS for the 90th anniversary of the party in 2020: It was Sunday, March 30, 1930, on the...

"If they kill me, I will be resurrected in the Salvadoran people" - Archbishop Óscar Romero assassinated 24 March, 1980 “I will not tire...