On December 10, 2024, a day before the massacre's 43 anniversary, Orlando Marquez buried the remains of family members

"With TPS for people from El Salvador expiring in March, it offers an easy way for Trump to reduce the number of TPS holders, and have new people to deport." theguardian.com/us-news/2024/d…

I share some views on the prospect of massive deportation under Trump and its impact on El Salvador in the interview in this program. Programa Miradas 19 de diciembre de 2024 youtu.be/H0axMG3e08U

El Salvador's Legislative Assembly is using the Christmas holidays for express adoption of the repeal of the prohibition on metallic mining in the country. Comisión aprueba ley de minería metálica y dirección de Minas acepta no tener estudios diario.elmundo.sv/politica/aprue…

The value of El Salvador's Bitcoin holdings has shot up, but the IMF will still require El Salvador to end BTC as legal tender, privatize Chivo wallet, and reduce government spending. Bitcoin, the IMF, and Bukele elsalvadorperspectives.com/2024/12/bitcoi…

Today the Nuevas Ideas-controlled Legislative Assembly in El Salvador voted to grant Nayib Bukele's request to repeal the country's prohibition of mining for gold and other metals.

"Giancarlo Devasini and Paolo Ardoino, two of the top executives of cryptocurrency giant Tether, bought real estate in La Libertad in 2024. Ardoino went a step further: the public deed of sale reveals that he also acquired Salvadoran nationality." elfaro.net/bitcoiners-new…

#Opinión || Trump asumirá la presidencia de Estados Unidos el 20 de enero, ¿qué pueden esperar los inmigrantes en su segunda gestión? Mirá este análisis de Tim Muth👇🏻 vozpublica.net/2024/11/09/tru…

The new National library in El Salvador is the backdrop of many of Bukele's spectacles. Today it was the site of a large demonstration against his plans for gold mining

The economy and inflation, not crime, afflicts Salvadorans at the beginning of 2025. Public opinion entering 2025 on crime and the economy elsalvadorperspectives.com/2025/01/public…

No reason to stay here and lots of reasons to leave.

Judge Xinis made clear that this is actually a very simple issue: ICE, by its own admission, screwed up. So it should be made to fix its mistake. Efforts to make this case more complicated are diverting from that basic, core, unchallenged fact.

If they could do this to Andry, an innocent man who did NOTHING wrong (he came to a port of entry seeking asylum), think what else they could do. He never saw a judge, they just threw him on a plane without even telling him where it was going. THIS IS WHY DUE PROCESS MATTERS.

I covered MS-13 for over a decade: its history, crimes, symbolism, cruelty, pacts with Salvadoran governments. I wrote a book about it. Never, ever, did any of the hundreds of sources I spoke to say anything that would allow us to believe Trump's strange interpretation of tattoos