HEADLINE, Democracy Now! JUNE 03, 2024 In El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele was sworn in for a second term Saturday. El Salvador’s constitution limits presidents to serving just one five-year term, but a 2021 Supreme Court decision allowed the former businessman to run for reelection. Under Bukele’s plan to combat gangs, El Salvador has arrested … Read More
Author: Vicki Gass, LAWG On January 15, 2024,1 president-elect Bernardo Arévalo of the Semilla Party was inaugurated after five tense months since he was elected on August 20, 2023. Guatemalans from all sectors (led by the Indigenous communities), international non-governmental organizations like LAWG, and foreign governments mobilized to prevent corrupt public and private actors from overturning the … Read More
“We need the continued support of the international community to ensure that basic human rights, such as the right to due process, are upheld in El Salvador,” said one local campaigner. JESSICA CORBETT Feb 16, 2024 In the wake of right-wing Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele recent reelection, 245 groups from 31 countries on Friday renewed calls for his … Read More
International observers confirm irregularities in the final vote count; Opposition parties decry fraud, social movement organizations call for election to be nullified On February 11, four out of the five alternate magistrates who make up El Salvador’s highest electoral authority, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), separated themselves from the decisions being made regarding the February 4 presidential … Read More
Opposition political parties denounced the lack of more than half of the minutes in some of the departments. | Photo: EFE Published 10 February 2024 The 47.40% of the registered population decided not to vote, which represents 2,945,933 people. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of El Salvador held a press conference on Friday in which … Read More