March 9, 2016
While civil charges involving illicit enrichment have recently moved forward against former Salvadoran president Mauricio Funes , he might...
blog
January 14, 2016
Last summer, El Salvador’s Supreme Court issued a ruling that dismissed challenges to a terrorism law that had been on the books for nearly...
blog
January 2, 2016
By most measures, 2015 was a dismal year for El Salvador. The country’s economy, in tatters, continued to stall. Women’s reproductive...
blog
September 3, 2015
In El Salvador, each month is proving worse than the last. The country suffered an astonishing climb in murders this August—by far the...
blog
August 3, 2015
A Warscapes reader from El Salvador wrote to me last night, requesting clarification on something I wrote in my post on El Salvador’s gangs...
blog
August 1, 2015
The carnage being wrought in El Salvador this year is slowly attracting the attention of major English-language media in the United States...
blog
July 7, 2015
This past month was the bloodiest yet for El Salvador in a year marked by spiking violence and insecurity. Some 677 people were murdered...
Opinion
January 12, 2015
A team representing the private consulting firm of Rudolph Giuliani will arrive in El Salvador this coming weekend to advise local leaders...
blog
January 3, 2015
Early last March, it appeared that the truce between rival gangs in El Salvador had come undone. Murder rates had begun to rise and all...