Bukele's security strategy differs little from past strategies in El Salvador

This article originally appeared on the website of InsightCrime with the title El Salvador Flirts with ‘Mano Dura’ Security Policies Again B...

The cycle of violence

The cycle of violence in which El Salvador is trapped has not stopped.   This past weekend is just one of countless examples.  On Saturday, ...

Femicide suicide

"Femicide suicide" is a crime specially recognized only in the laws of El Salvador.   It means a suicide by a woman escaping viole...

Attacks on police and soldiers

In recent days. police and soldiers have been murdered in El Salvador at an alarming rate. Most recently we saw this yesterday, Sunday, Apri...

A bloody Holy Week

Semana Santa (Holy Week) is a time of vacations, party and festivals in El Salvador.   The beaches and families gather.   But this year, the...

Ongoing epidemic of gender based violence

Violence directed at women and girls in El Salvador is an ongoing epidemic.  The levels of gender-based violence are rooted in structures an...

Better news

It would be wrong to call almost 500 murders in 60 days good news, but for El Salvador, it is better news than the country has had in a long...

Catching up on the news

After being on a vacation for a few weeks, here are some short news pieces to catch you up on what is happening in El Salvador. Internationa...

How crime in El Salvador will challenge Bukele

This article was originally published on the website of InsightCrime with the title  The Top Three Security Challenges Facing El Salvador’s ...

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...

Murders are down, but how many missing persons need to be added to totals?

This article originally appeared with the title  Homicides Down, Disappearances Up: El Salvador’s Conflicting Numbers on the website of Ins...

US security aid to El Salvador shows few results

The New York Times has an extensive article today on US involvement in the battle against gangs in El Salvador titled A Conflicted War: MS-1...

Why arrests of supposed gang members do not signify successes

The Attorney General's office (FGR) and National Civilian Police (PNC) in El Salvador regularly (like every day) parade in front of the ...

"Extraordinary Measures" in Salvadoran prisons now are permanent

This article originally appeared on the website of InsightCrime with the title  El Salvador Congress Makes ‘Extraordinary’ Prison Measures P...

Updating the news from El Salvador

I was on sabbatical from posting to El Salvador Perspectives for the last few weeks.   Here is a short summary of some of the recent news du...

A court ruling on forced displacement

In 2017 I wrote a post about forced internal displacement which starts with this true story: The message was slipped under the door of thei...

One conviction not same as a cleaned-up PNC

This article first appeared on the website of InsightCrime with the title  El Salvador Police Convictions Fall Short in Curbing Abuses Writt...

World Refugee Day -- the internal refugees of El Salvador

On June 20, World Refugee Day, El Salvador must deal with a reality of hundreds of thousands of internal refugees displaced by violence.   T...

A Salvadoran reality of gender-based violence ignored by Jeff Sessions

Women, bringing their children, are fleeing gender-based violence in El Salvador and seeking asylum in the United States.   Yet, in the case...