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What Is Behind the Controversy in El Salvador's Recent Elections?
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A voter casting their ballot in El Salvador’s 2009 presidential elections (Amber / Creative Commons) This article by Angeles Rodríguez-Domínguez was originally published on NACLA's website. It is already past midnight in Nejapa, El Salvador. Poll workers...
Diplomat-turned-scholar Héctor Silva exposes police corruption in El Salvador
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Nearly 20 years later, journalist, diplomat and now published author Héctor Silva Ávalos still cannot get that afternoon in late 1995 out of his head. Then an arts and culture reporter at La Prensa Gráfica...
Talk of Death Squads to Combat New Wave of Gang Violence in El Salvador
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The funeral of Justo Germán Gil, a member of the police Maintaining Order Unit killed by gang members in the town of San Juan Opico in eastern El Salvador on Jan. 10, 2015. Credit: Vladimir Girón/IPS By Edgardo Ayala SAN SALVADOR, Apr 23 2015 (IPS)...
Salvadoran Peasant Farmers Clash With U.S. Over Seeds
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Cruz Esmeralda Mejía, Maybelyne Palacios and Rosa María Rivera growing plants from improved maize seed in the La Maroma cooperative, in the Bajo Lempa region of El Salvador. Credit: Edgardo Ayala/IPS By Edgardo Ayala JIQUILISCO, El Salvador, Jul 5 ...
Ex-guerrilla sworn in as El Salvador’s president
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A onetime rural schoolteacher who became a rebel commander during El Salvador’s long civil war was sworn in as president Sunday, the first former guerrilla to lead the Central American nation. Salvador Sanchez...

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State of Exception -- in the communities

September 2023 parade in Tonacatepeque I do not often write in the first person in this space, but as I develop this series of posts at the start of the third year of the State of Exception, it feels important to describe how I have seen El Salvador...
The Prisons of El Salvador's State of Exception

This is the second of my series on the State of Exception in El Salvador as it starts its third year. Today we look at the prisons holding those persons arrested during Bukele's war on the gangs. Since the beginning of the State of Exception two years...
El Salvador has now lived under an emergency "state of exception" for two years

March 27 is the two year anniversary of the State of Exception in El Salvador. This suspension of constitutional due process protections as part of a war on gangs was adopted by the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly in the midst of a bloody weekend in...
Two sermons

Sunday March 24 is the 44th anniversary of the assassination of Salvadoran archbishop Oscar Romero. For this year's post commemorating the anniversary of Romero's martyrdom, we listen to Romero's voice in sermons he gave on the final two days of his...
Ongoing growth in tourism to El Salvador

El Salvador is continuing to experience a tourism boom. One way to measure this is just be looking at the number of people arriving at the country's international airport. The number of travelers arriving by air into El Salvador increased from 1....

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El Salvador news, politics, culture, events with coverage of Nayib Bukele, Nuevas Ideas government and diverse media sources by Tim Muth
Tim's El Salvador Blog: The Romero Files

Our friend Polycarpio, who writes the quality Super Martyrio bilingual blog dedicated to Archbishop Oscar Romero, recently wrote a post ...

Tim's El Salvador Blog: The Movie List

I am a big believer in the power of video and movies to teach and convey messages not possible with only the written word. I have listed he...