Tag: el salvador

• Tom Stevenson · The Mask Is Off: Bukele’s Prison State

  September 4, 2025

  Giving the US access to El Salvador’s expanded prison system as an offshore gulag has made Nayib Bukele a darling of… https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n16/tom-stevenson/the-mask-is-off?utm_campaign=3750239_20250903NewIssue&utm_medium=email&utm_source=LRB%20email&dm_i=7NIQ,28DPB,3GWB87,46O6R,1 more ›

• Real Housewives of Gitmo

  March 29, 2025

  It is, of course, impossible to know how to dress as a powerful woman in a high-profile role — some hater is always going to take issue — but you… more ›

• “You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos”

  March 27, 2025

  On Friday, March 14, Arturo Suárez Trejo called his wife, Nathali Sánchez, from an immigration detention center in Texas. Suárez, a 33-year-old native of Caracas, Venezuela, explained that his deportation… more ›

• Could US criminals be sent to El Salvador’s mega-jail?

  March 16, 2025

  US Secretary of State Marco Rubio could not have been more complimentary about the deal he struck with the president of El Salvador on Monday. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg4jx8xyjgo more ›

• El Salvador Bitcoin

  May 16, 2024

  El Salvador has mined nearly 474 bitcoins since 2021 thanks to a volcano-fueled geothermal power plant, official data showed on Tuesday, bringing the government’s total bitcoin portfolio to nearly $354… more ›

• Life Under Gang Rule in El Salvador

  November 30, 2018

  Life Under Gang Rule in El Salvador Nearly 20,000 Salvadorans were killed from 2014 to 2017. That’s more violent deaths than in several countries that were at war during those… more ›

• El Salvador held hostage by gangs

  May 20, 2016

  El Salvador held hostage by gangs » Last year in El Salvador, more than one person in every 1,000 was killed, a figure more typical of a country at war.… more ›