El Salvador
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ANALYSIS
El Salvador Tests the Extent to Which Security Can Reshape Democracy
El Salvador's proposed life sentence reform extends beyond criminal policy. It signifies a broader regional shift in which fear, punishment,…
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AMERICAS
El Salvador Emergency Rule Meets a Growing Human Rights Reckoning
A new report on El Salvador's extended state of exception reveals a darker side to the country's praised anti-gang crackdown:…
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LIFE
El Salvador Pet Prosthetics Turn One Dog’s Pain into Policy
A baby stroller replaces a dog’s legs, but its owner keeps pushing, insisting on hope where care and dignified options…
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AMERICAS
Twenty-Five Years After the Quake, El Salvador Remembers Forty-Five Seconds That Changed Everything
Twenty-five years after January 13, 2001 —the quake that bent El Salvador for forty-five seconds —its aftershocks still live in…
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LIFE
Salvadorean Prison Shadows Trail Venezuelan Returnees as New Year Fires
Back in Venezuela, survivors of El Salvador’s Cecot mega-prison prepare for New Year’s rituals while living with stigma from Trump-era…
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AMERICAS
El Salvador’s Jesuit Case Is Stuck Again, and Time Is Becoming an Accomplice
Thirty-six years after soldiers murdered six Jesuit priests and two women at San Salvador's UCA, the drive to prosecute the…
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LIFE
El Salvador’s Bukele Swaps Iron Fist for Open Palm in a New Crusade: Saving Stray Animals
After three years of ruling with an iron fist, President Nayib Bukele has chosen a softer battlefield. His new war…
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LIFE
Yolocamba I Ta: Songs That Carried Hope Through El Salvador’s Darkest Nights
For fifty years, Yolocamba I Ta has carried guitars into strikes, chapels, refugee halls, and world stages, sowing music where…
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ANALYSIS
Bukele Resets El Salvador’s Constitution—and the Clock on Presidential Limits
In less than a day, El Salvador's legislature erased five constitutional guardrails, clearing the way for President Nayib Bukele to…
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AMERICAS
El Salvador’s Student Massacre Still Haunts a Nation That Won’t Open Its Archives
Fifty years after gunfire tore through a student march in San Salvador, survivors like Mirna Perla still carry shrapnel in…
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