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Journalists are my heroes.
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
17.02.2026 11:41 — 👍 21766 🔁 7744 💬 299 📌 637
Bukele has focused lobbying on courting MAGA politicians and “positioning narratives” in US media. He’s paying for it through a public electricity company that shields financial information through a private subsidiary.
@periodistagl.bsky.social in today's newsletter beta.elfaro.net/en/el-salvad...
Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "One of my favorite people, President Bukele ... he operates rather large prisons. Very strong prisons."
05.02.2026 14:24 — 👍 829 🔁 254 💬 254 📌 181An unholy alliance of tech magnates and populist leaders like Bukele.
14.02.2026 14:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The recent fall in the value of Bitcoin hasn't shaken Nayib Bukele's love of the volatile crypto-asset, but it has not been good for the public finances of El Salvador. www.elsalvadorperspectives.com/2026/02/buke...
14.02.2026 02:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Over the last month, Nayib Bukele has been attributing public security in El Salvador to either mass incarceration or a miracle from God for those who pray.
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Her work has been so important over decades.
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The country proclaimed by Nayib Bukele the safest in the hemisphere has called out the troops to protect the 5 concert dates of international superstar Shakira.
07.02.2026 21:50 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
SCOOP: ICE has done more than 60 secret flights on Air Wisconsin since mid-January, according to @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social. I watched one load this afternoon.
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Trump likes it. youtu.be/XvGV1Ac0vQ0?...
06.02.2026 00:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Nayib Bukele speaks at National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC and proclaims public security in El Salvador a miracle from God. No comment on whether tens of thousands of innocent persons arbitrarily arrested are also attributed to the deity.
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You can be an authoritarian ruler and highly popular at the same time. Nayib Bukele has a 92% approval rating in latest poll. www.laprensagrafica.com/elsalvador/b...
05.02.2026 14:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On Thursday US and El Salvador inked new trade deal which lifts 10% Trump "Liberation Day" tariff and makes it easier for mining companies and exporters to do business in ES. 34 instances of "El Salvador shall...." Only 3 instances of "The US shall..." www.elsalvadorperspectives.com/2026/02/new-...
01.02.2026 20:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In order to get Trump to lift the 10% "Liberation Day" tariff which he imposed on El Salvador and many other nations, El Salvador agrees to make it easier for US companies to mine "for critical minerals" Is gold critical? www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Nayib Bukele is giving a tour of the CECOT mega-prison to Kast, the president-elect of Chile. Carceral-populism.
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Mass incarceration and abuse of human rights have no impact on Nayib Bukele's ongoing popularity in El Salvador according to the most recent poll from the UCA. www.elsalvadorperspectives.com/2026/01/salv...
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El Salvador joins Trump's Board of Peace.
28.01.2026 22:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Immigration arrests of Salvadorans in the US increased by more than 100% in 2025, while the number apprehended crossing the southern US border declined by more than 90%. These and other stats in today's post. www.elsalvadorperspectives.com/2026/01/immi...
28.01.2026 15:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Call me skeptical.
US politicians praise Bukele's 'miracle' at 1st Salvadoran National Prayer Breakfast www.ncronline.org/news/us-poli...
We have to see the logic of the killings as well as the killings themselves. The horror is a truth in itself. But it is also a sign of a political logic, one known from the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century.
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Journalistic investigations and investigations by the USDOJ have shown that Nayib Bukele also negotiated with gangs for political support in his races for mayor and the presidency.
27.01.2026 14:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Quijano had been a major figure in ARENA for years, being mayor of San Salvador, leader of the National Assembly, and presidential candidate. He joins former ARENA president Tony Saca and former ARENA San Salvador mayor Ernesto Muyshondt serving prison terms in the country.
27.01.2026 14:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Quijano, a political enemy of Nayib Bukele, had fled El Salvador and was tried in absentia by the Bukele government in 2024 for negotiating with gangs for election support in 2014 presidential election -- something investigations showed was done by both ARENA and the FMLN that year.
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Norman Quijano, former president of El Salvador's National Assembly and 2014 presidential candidate from the right wing ARENA party was deported from US today to El Salvador where he faces a 13 year prison sentence for dealing with gangs and election fraud. www.laprensagrafica.com/elsalvador/n...
27.01.2026 14:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A small step forward recently in a Salvadoran court hearing case of the 1981 El Mozote massacre. At this point, it is not clear any of the elderly generals and colonels will be alive when a judgment is finally handed down.
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His career started with an infusion of Venezuelan petro dollars, today Nayib Bukele aligns himself with Donald Trump against Maduro and surrounds himself with advisers with links to the Venezuelan opposition.
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Washington Post: Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed the defense secretary’s order to leave no survivors.
New York Times: Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case President Trump said he would pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, who prosecutors said partnered with cocaine traffickers as Honduras’s president and is serving a 45-year sentence.
Let's put these 2 headlines from this afternoon together.
They “finish off” suspected cocaine traffickers hanging helplessly off boats in the open ocean.
But an _actual_ cocaine trafficker who just happens to be a conservative political elite gets a pardon.
I started writing El Salvador Perspectives 21 years ago today. A lot has changed in the country, for better and for worse.
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