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Salvadoran Newspaper Says Bukele Froze Partners’ Assets After Documentary

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The influential digital newspaper El Faro denounced on Thursday that the government of Nayib Bukele froze assets belonging to its partners in retaliation for...

What Is the Scope of the Mega-Trial Against MS-13 Leaders in El Salvador?

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Shackled hand and foot, visibly aged, the MS-13 leaders on trial in El Salvador are now only a shadow of the violent gang members...

El Salvador Advances Geothermal Expansion with World Bank Support

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Geothermal energy supplies about 21 percent of El Salvador’s net electricity, placing the country among the world’s leaders in its use of this renewable...

Nayib Bukele Opens 70 More Schools in El Salvador Education Push

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El Salvador’s government inaugurated 70 renovated public schools on Sunday as the third batch under President Nayib Bukele’s Dos Escuelas por Día program. The...

Salvadorans Protest Bukele’s Policies in May Day March

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Thousands of Salvadorans marched through the capital on May 1 to denounce what they called democratic setbacks under President Nayib Bukele and to demand...

El Salvador Animal Market Thrives on Cash and Barter

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A rooster announces the start of the day at the San Rafael Cedros market, about 50 kilometers from San Salvador, where every weekend sellers...

El Salvador Festival of Flowers and Palms

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In the hills just south of San Salvador, the small colonial town of Panchimalco is preparing once again for one of the most visually...

El Salvador Tourism Hits All-Time High in 2025

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El Salvador recorded a historic 4.1 million international visitors in 2025, the highest annual figure the country has ever seen. Ministry of Tourism data...

Bukele Compares El Salvador’s Mass Gang Trial to the Nuremberg Trials

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El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, on Wednesday compared the collective trial of gang leaders in his country to the historic Nuremberg proceedings against top...

El Salvador Opens Mass Trial Against Gang leaders

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El Salvador’s justice system on Monday opened a trial against some 486 people accused of belonging to the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), including several founders...