Nayib Bukele is now president of El Salvador

El Salvador has a new president today. Nayib Bukele was sworn in as president in a ceremony in front of the historic National Palace in Pla...

What was actual voter turnout in El Salvador?

El Salvador's Supreme Electoral Tribunal reported that voter turnout for the February 3 presidential election was quite low.   The TSE r...

Is the FMLN doomed to irrelevance?

The political party which had its origins in the guerrilla forces which fought in El Salvador's civil war may have little future in the ...

Nayib Bukele -- new president of El Salvador

The polls were right all along.    Nayib Bukele, the young businessman turned politician whose favorite communication medium is Facebook Liv...

Close of presidential campaigns in El Salvador

All the presidential candidates had events this weekend to mark the close of their election campaigns.  Carlos Calleja, the candidate from A...

Will anything stick to Bukele?

It has been an unusual few weeks heading towards the presidential election campaign in El Salvador. As mentioned previously , leader in the ...

Homicides spike in January heading into elections

This article originally appeared on the website of InsightCrime under the title  El Salvador Homicides Thrust MS13 Back Into Official Discou...

Religion and presidential politics in El Salvador

El Salvador is a country with a population professing to hold religious faith, 80% of them Christian. In that context, political candidates ...

Campaign videos in El Salvador presidential election

How are the candidates for president of El Salvador presenting themselves in television advertising?   Here is a sample:

The debate and the candidate who was not there

Sunday night in El Salvador there was a national televised debate among the candidates for president in El Salvador, sponsored by the Salvad...

Political money and transparency

In the last few years, El Salvador has made progress in transparency regarding political donations.  This progress resulted from rulings of...

Political ad spending in El Salvador

Political ad spending for the upcoming presidential election in El Salvador is being tracked by Citizen Action and its Center for Monitorin...

How to define Nayib Bukele

An article last week on the website of America's Quarterly asked  Will El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele Be the Next Social Media President? . ...

Carlos Calleja and ARENA's past

The National Republican Alliance ("ARENA" for its initials in Spanish) is the major right wing political party in El Salvador.   I...

Of flooding and presidential candidates

A weather system related to the tropical weather patterns which produced hurricane Michael in the Caribbean has been generating heavy rains ...

Bukele has 25 point lead in latest poll

CID-Gallup released the results of recent polling of Salvadorans concerning their preferences for president. In the poll of 1205 adults, Na...

Does the Salvadoran diaspora care about elections?

Citizens of El Salvador who live outside of the country are eligible to vote in the upcoming 2019 presidential elections.   Yet as of the Se...

Tony Saca sentenced to 10 years in prison for corruption

Former president of El Salvador Antonio ("Tony") Saca was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for corruption pursuant to a plea...

Candidates campaign early, legal prohibition or not

Every election season in El Salvador I have to laugh.   The country's electoral code prohibits campaigning too far in advance of the ele...