Category: El Salvador
Onidia Gomez: 100 Days of Nayib Bukele in El Salvador
Chris Hedges: You Don’t Need a Telescope to Find a ‘Shithole Country’
Federico Fuentes: El Salvador: In power, former guerrillas to hold first congress
Grassroots leaders in El Salvador discuss what they anticipate from President Nayib Bukele, what they demand, and how they plan to navigate the distance between the two
The leaders of the shithole country would oversee the murder of 80,000 people and 8,000 disappeared in El Salvador
Yevgeniya Yatsenko: Grassroots Organizing Drove El Salvador’s Mining BanEl Salvador’s activists proved that a national consensus on environmentalism can be forged one town at a time
Pedro Cabezas: Victory Over Irresponsible MiningAfter a long struggle, El Salvador just proved that with enough civil society support, even a very poor country can stand up to powerful global mining firms
Luke Walsh-Mellet: More Repression, More Fightback! El Salvador’s Labor Movement Defends the Minimum WageOn January 1, workers in El Salvador won a big increase in the minimum wage—in some cases doubling their pay.
Samantha Pineda: Feminist Movements Challenge El Salvador’s Total Abortion BanEl Salvador’s total ban on abortion has horrific consequences for tens of thousands of Salvadoran women. Feminist movements are demanding reforms
Robin Broad: El Salvador Lessons for the TPP FightThe executives of a global mining corporation assumed it would be easy to get their way in Cabañas, a rural region of northern El Salvador. They were wrong
Thirty-five years after its founding, El Salvador’s historic Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) is set to hold its first national congress at the end of October.
Michael Busch: El Salvador’s War on TerrorEl Salvador risks sacrificing civil liberties and human rights in its war on terror against gangs
Michael Busch: El Salvador Struggles to Break Legacy of Civil War ViolenceWhile protest movements are gaining steam in its regional neighbors, El Salvador descends further into social crisis