Hilary Goodfriend
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Becaria posdoctoral @ Instituto de Geografía UNAM. Writing in @NACLA , @jacobinmag & more
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(Too) many years ago, I was invited to participate in this project with a chapter on Reagan’s Kissinger Commission on Central America. I can’t tell you how thrilled I am that I can finally share it with you.
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In El Salvador, women are sentenced to decades behind bars for homicide after abortions or miscarriages. Latin American feminists have won monumental recent victories against the patriarchy, but not because of benevolent court intervention. These battles are won in the streets.
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Back in San Salvador, it’s amazing how Bitcoin has changed this city!
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Just kidding lmao literally no one uses it
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haha wow that's so cool didn't you order a nation-wide lock down enforced by the military & arbitrarily detain thousands of citizens in concentration camps for weeks on end for alleged sanitary infringements
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The president of El Salvador’s vendetta against the prestigious Jesuit university UCA is outrageous but it’s also hilarious because he studied there and never finished his degree
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I’ve been an accredited international observer in every presidential election in El Salvador since 2009 and most midterms, 7 total. I’ve never seen this kind of coordinated sabotage of the process. This isn’t failure or incompetence, it’s fraud.
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I lived in El Salvador for six years & saw first hand what the criminalization of abortion means: folks trafficking ulcer medication, poor women serving decades for miscarriages, friends forced to carry unwanted pregnancies to term. El patriarcado no se cae, hay que destruirlo.
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It’s wild to watch Bukele blow up diplomatic relations with El Salvador’s
#1
trading partner, source of currency & migration destination without building alternative international alliances. Does he really think Bitcoin will save him?
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Massive homicide spike today in El Salvador underscores the dangers of top-down, secret negotiations with the gangs: their only leverage is the body count. This is not a sustainable security strategy and only shows who really controls territory in the country.
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Last night, El Salvador’s President Bukele named Milena Mayorga Ambassador to the US: former Miss Universe contestant, TV personality & ARENA legislator, she’s also the daughter-in-law of Colonel Domingo Monterroso, responsible for the 1981 Mozote massacre among other atrocities
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As El Salvador’s president escalates the political persecution of the Left, it’s important to remember that the attorney general & Supreme Court were illegally installed in a legislative coup on may 1st. Any semblance of justice in this context is impossible.
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México again reminds us of its great contradictions: from sheltering leftists fleeing dictatorship in South & Central America in the 1970s/80s while repressing the Mexican left, it now grants Evo asylum as thousands of migrants & refugees are waitlisted, detained, or deported
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El Salvador's extremely online president has been conspicuously quiet in the wake of Juan Orlando Hernández's arrest in Honduras...
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El Salvador’s president, desperate for investment after tanking his reputation in Washington & raising public debt to +90% of the GDP, is casting about for a technofix. It won’t work. /
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In case anyone is keeping track, El Salvador’s president released a statement on the war in Gaza and it is, to put it mildly, despicable
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Pitazos en las colonias de clase media y alta, banderas blancas en los barrios trabajadores. San Salvador pide auxilio
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This is the Salvadoran government’s position on the war in Europe, in case y’all were waiting for it
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Xiomara Castro’s victory in Honduras is thrilling, such a welcome breath of hope in the region after so much suffering and struggle. She will need all the international solidarity we can muster.
Felicidades al pueblo hondureño por esta gran victoria, solo es el comienzo.
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Hours after closing "Bitcoin week" in El Salvador, the Bukele administration raids the offices of historic left feminist group Las Mélidas & other NGOs including PROVIDA & Procomes. A serious escalation of political persecution and repression against civil society.
Consideramos esta acción un atentado a nuestra institución, un acto cobarde para opacar nuestro accionar.
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Today Bukele marched armed soldiers into the legislative chambers, then prayed as he addressed the nation from within the occupied congress. This fascist circus, with bread for the evangelical fundamentalists, is all so that deputies approve a foreign loan for public security
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Lot going on here but I’ll just say that this mf’s family owned the first McDonald’s franchise in El Salvador
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Horrific bloodshed followed by an authoritarian lock-down in El Salvador, suspension of constitutional guarantees. People point to the irony of a state of exception in cryptoutopia, but the libertarian fantasy requires just such violence & suppression of human rights to implement
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The last time El Salvador hosted Miss Universe was in 1975, under military dictatorship and on the eve of civil war. Fittingly, El Salvador is now hosting again, 15+ months into the suspension of constitutional rights and with the president preparing for unlawful reelection.
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The process continues to deteriorate in El Salvador. At least one opposition party has fully withdrawn from the count. Journalists & international observers share widespread images of unfolded ballots being tallied—voters must fold ballots into quarters to insert into ballot box.
DENUNCIA de observadores CIS: contando papaletas no doblados, San Vicente Sur, Tecoluca, Centro de votacion 1531, JRV
#8324
. Centro Escolar Caserio Los Naranjos, escrutinio gimnasio nacional C.
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It’s been obvious for decades that repression only radicalizes the cycle of violence in ElSalvador. Mass incarceration has failed. There is no military solution to the gang crisis that isn’t genocidal. Bukele’s spectacle is just that,at the expense of the poorest &most vulnerable
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Defended my dissertation today! Oficialmente Dra. Goodfriend
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A Salvadoran man has been disappeared, arrested after publishing tweets critical of the presidential family’s misuse of public security forces. His whereabouts remain unknown.
#LiberanALuisRivas
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When El Salvador’s FMLN was in power they built one of these and the conservative Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional
People are often surprised to hear that Seoul's bus system was just as disorganized, congestive and chaotic as the Philippines - as recently as 2003.
One of the first reforms they implemented was a congestion-free median bus lane, similar to the EDSA Carousel.
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If the US is so concerned about corruption, authoritarianism & human rights violations in northern Central America, why does it continue to massively fund, arm & train their security forces?
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El Salvador is under a military-enforced quarantine, yet homicides spiked to 23 yesterday. More evidence that Bukele’s claims to have subdued gang violence with state repression are pure fabrication. History shows that deals brokered in secret won’t hold, inevitably backfire...
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There’s no reason to believe the Salvadoran government’s numbers. But it’s worth stressing that Bukele is implying **all** homicides in the country are gang related, which is absurd on its face (feminicides, neighborhood disputes, etc etc)
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It’s disheartening to see so many journalists who should know better taking Bukele’s word for El Salvador’s Feb 4 elections results and somberly intoning about democracy and security while Bukele commits brazen electoral fraud. /👇🪡🧵
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Massive irregularities in the data being reported by El Salvador’s elections authorities.
We know they have the votes they need—why constantly undermine that mandate with anti democratic subterfuge?
11:25 de la noche, en la página del TSE, para el departamento de Cabañas aparecen 0 actas escrutadas pero el partido Nuevas Ideas lleva 9,929 votos...
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On this day in 1980, four US churchwomen were raped & murdered by US-backed security forces in El Salvador. I wrote in
@jacobinmag
about these “fiercely courageous women who risked their lives to support the most vulnerable victims of US foreign policy”
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Did Óscar Méndez, who died from lack of medical attention while detained in a state quarantine site on April 1st, 2020, make his own choice?
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When the courts and legislature pressed for a constitutionally-regulated quarantine, Bukele called them "genocidal." Now, desperate for financing as his own erratic, authoritarian governance imperils international funds, Bukele pivots to courting libertarian cryptobros.
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It is maddening to see journalists reporting as though Sunday’s elections in El Salvador have concluded. These were some of the most questioned & chaotic elections in peacetime! There are no official results yet! And the final count only began last night…
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I know the Salvadoran government’s numbers are all bullshit, but this one is wild: projections for the prison they’re building went from 20,000 capacity to 40,000 in a month
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Did Alfredo Canesa, shot by police on April 12, 2020 for not wearing a mask, make his own choice?
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I interviewed feminist economist Julia Evelin Martínez for
@jacobinmag
: “Martínez is pessimistic about the FMLN’s revival, & she worries that the demise of the Salvadoran left has cleared the path for Bukele, who remains enormously popular, to lead the country towards fascism”
El Salvador president Nayib Bukele has been in office eight months, and his post-ideological pretenses on the campaign trail have quickly veered to the right.
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For god’s sake: El Salvador was never a “two party system.” One party ruled uninterrupted for 20 years, then another party won two terms. There are many other parties. One just won the presidency. US media: call it “polarized” if you must, but stop repeating Bukele’s propaganda
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Last year, I wrote for
@jacobinmag
about the 1989 assassinations of 6 Jesuit priests, their housekeeper & her daughter by US-backed forces in El Salvador. Today, Colonel Inocente Montano was sentenced to 130+ years for the crime in Spain.
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By mid-may 2020, 9,000 Salvadorans had been detained in Bukele's 88 improvised "containment centers" & more than 4,500 citizens remained stranded abroad, denied entry into their country.
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Incompetence or fraud? The result is the same: El Salvador’s elections results have been irrevocably compromised.
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Adding a ‘crypto-‘ prefix to any of those contradictions won’t change the underlying social relations that reproduce El Salvador’s underdevelopment. It will, however, make for a dizzying a dystopian scenario of displacement & dispossession.
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The US excluding Ortega from the now collapsing Summit of the Americas while inviting Bukele is almost admirably incoherent policy. Just a total, obstinate commitment to alienating the region & squandering any remaining good will.
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Extremely alarming developments in El Salvador’s election: after the announcement of a recount of the entire legislative vote, the whereabouts and integrity of all ballots from the whole department of San Salvador are currently unaccounted for
La JED de San Salvador, ante el comunicado urgente del TSE donde les instruye a devolver el paquete de las JRV de su jurisdicción a la DOE, le aclara al TSE, partidos políticos y población que no ha recibido en la sede señalada por la DOE paquete electoral alguno.
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The cryptocircus is in town. El Salvador is diverting public security forces to serve as Bitcoin bro bodyguards, while threatening recipients of foreign aid with jail time.
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This NYT piece is a solid summary of recent events in El Salvador, but it's worth noting that Bukele was not "elected president at age 38 as the candidate of a new party of his creation," but rather on the GANA ticket /
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Hoy El Salvador perdió dos luchadores, gigantes en la historia salvadoreña: la compañera Margarita Posada y el compañero Blandino Nerio. No tengo palabras. El país está de luto y mi corazón está partido. Que sus ejemplos nos queden de guía.
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Bukele’s authoritarianism & improvisation has accelerated El Salvador’s structural economic crisis, the product of dependent insertion in the global economy & the collapse of its neoliberal export-driven ‘development’ model./
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Mi entrevista con
@mxgxw_gamma
ya está en español en
@jacobinlat
✨ Gómez habla de su detención, la actual represión masiva en El Salvador, y por qué insiste que las compras de Bitcoin de Bukele son falsas.
El colapso del mercado del Bictoin afectó de manera muy intensa a El Salvador, donde el «cripto» es moneda oficial. Conversamos con un destacado crítico del criptocapitalismo sobre las derivas autoritarias que el reciente crack económico puede generar.
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40 years ago today, Ita, Dorothy, Jean,& Maura were killed by US-backed forces in El Salvador: “fiercely courageous women who risked their lives to support the most vulnerable victims of US foreign policy in their struggle for dignity & self-determination”
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This reporting confirms El Salvador’s biggest open secret. The twist is that recent reforms could result in prosecution for its publication.
EXCLUSIVE: Audios of top Bukele admin official reveal a spike in homicides in March was the result of the collapse of negotiations between MS-13 and the government of El Salvador. Via
@elfaroenglish
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My latest for
@jacobinmag
on the 30th anniversary of the Jesuit massacre in El Salvador: “As long as the monstrous military-industrial complex casts its shadow across the globe, true justice for the casualties of US foreign policy in El Salvador and beyond will remain incomplete”
Today marks thirty years since the massacre of six Jesuits, their housekeeper, and her daughter by US-trained forces in El Salvador. But US brutality in Latin America isn’t a thing of the past.
@HilaryGoodfrien
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It is at least amusing that the head of state who is so desperate to attract foreign investment that he’s selling Salvadoran citizenship for $1 million apiece railing against the “globalists”
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This is very serious. There is widespread evidence that Bukele and his party are trying to steal an election in real time—an election that, by most measures, they had already won.
⚠️ The ongoing legislative vote count has been rife with outside interference and credible allegations of ballot stuffing. /⬇️
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34 years ago today, US-backed soldiers murdered six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her daughter at the Central American University in El Salvador.
Today, US-backed forces are slaughtering innocents in Gaza. Now, as then, we say: not in our name!
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This is astonishing in the context of the recent showdown outside military headquarters as the Bukele administration refused a judicial order to inspect the military archives regarding the Mozote case (this after Bukele had pledged to open the archives “from A to Z”
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Since Bukele’s 2019 election in El Salvador, 20,000+ public sector workers have been fired including 131 union officials, 10 public sector unions dismantled, and 16 union officials incarcerated. The “war on gangs” looks a lot like a war on workers.
#El15Marchamos
🚨 DENUNCIAMOS:
10 sindicatos han sido desarticulados
131 directivos con fuero sindical despedidos ilegalmente
38 sindicalistas han sido suspendidos por demandar los derechos de la clase
trabajadora y
16 han sido encarcelados
¡¡¡Alto a la represión sindical!!!
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What’s especially disturbing about this recent government censorship of a Salvadoran author isn’t just that the Bukele regime requested her book presentation be canceled, but that the Guatemalan government promptly agreed and acted in kind—as did festival organizers.
sí, así es: el Gobierno de mi país, El Salvador, prohibió la presentación de mi nuevo libro en
@FILGuatemala
. ¿Bajonea? Sí, un vergo. ¿Vamos a callar? Nel. Les comparto el comunicado de
@FyGEditores
y el nuevo espacio de presentación. No nos van a callar.
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Anyway, here’s a pic that’s been circulating with Milena & Trump from her pageant days. God help us all.
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Bukele has deployed a massive military force to terrorize & occupy historic sites of popular resistance in El Salvador.
#ElModeloBukeleEs
represión
⚠️ The Bukele regime has militarized historic organized communities across Northern Chalatenango, with soldiers occupying the Museum & home of Jon Cortina, Jesuit priest & survivor of the 1989 military massacre that killed his colleagues at the UCA university.
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Liberals love McCain for his occasional breaks from evil-doing because it reinforces their belief that society’s problems are due to misguided attitudes that can be corrected rather than fundamental antagonisms that structure our relations (they are wrong)
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Parece que ahora algunos se dieron cuenta que la Sala representa los intereses de la oligarquía y que está haciendo todo lo posible para desmontar cualquier semblanza de institucionalidad democrática en el país... 🤔
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The forthcoming volume "Central American Migrations in the Twenty-First Century," to which I had the pleasure of contributing, is now available for pre-sale from the University of Arizona Press! Big thanks to the editors for all their hard work on this
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A summary of Bukele’s broadside against public sector unions in El Salvador: 146 union leaders fired, 38 suspended, 16 imprisoned under the indefinite state of exception.
#4A
ñosDeLucha
Demandamos la libertad de los sindicalistas: Sabino Antonio Ramos Cruz, Giovanni Aguirre López y Misael Itamir Gómez ; personas defensoras de derechos de las clase trabajadora y víctimas inocentes criminalizadas por el régimen de Bukele.
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Years ago, I was delighted to be invited to join this project. I had started to worry this day would never come…
One obituary was never going to be enough, so we wrote a book and... waited.
Web:
Print:
@GregGrandin
@sunraysunray
@VersoBooks
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(It’s fraud btw)
Incompetence or fraud? The result is the same: El Salvador’s elections results have been irrevocably compromised.
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I reviewed the new edition of Empire’s Workshop by
@GregGrandin
for
@jacobinmag
. This book was a big part of my early radicalization and it was a joy to revisit now, as the empire seems to be raging against the dying of the light
Latin America is not the United States’ “backyard.” It’s the training ground, historian Greg Grandin argues, for periods of imperial retrenchment. But it’s also a region where radical movements have consistently refused to be crushed by US imperial power.
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This is the reality of the crypto-utopia that Bukele has desperately been pitching to libertarian foreign investors all week: authoritarianism & the criminalization of dissent in the service of an elite mafia.
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Really disturbing situation in El Salvador. As predicted, the new “anti-gang” laws are being used to criminalize the political opposition and threaten dissidents
🚨 El disenso democrático NO ES DELITO
Responsabilizamos al gobierno salvadoreño por cualquier daño ocasionado a
@Medardofmln
tras las amenazas del Ministro
@RolandoCastroSV
que buscan criminalizar las denuncias contra arrestos arbitrarios en
#ElSalvador
#AlertaSV
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Remembering the UCA martyrs today. 32 years later, the authoritarian Bukele government has targeted their university with threats and sustained harassment. The UCA remains a defiant voice for justice and democracy in El Salvador.
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No surprises here. After his party’s legislative coup replaced the entire constitutional court, which authorized his reelection despite multiple explicit constitutional prohibitions, Bukele makes it official.
“He decido correr como candidato a la presidencia de la República de El Salvador”, Presidente
@nayibbukele
Un pueblo libre, soberano e independiente. 🇸🇻
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Ronald Reagan is in Cold War Call of Duty, and I’m on YouTube talking about US interventions in Central American national liberation struggles in the 1980s for Jacobin
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You know it’s bad when even the OAS has to call it a coup
Secretaria General de la OEA condena intento de golpe en Guatemala
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My latest: “Time & again, the president has demonstrated a mistrust of his base, taking extraordinary measures to insulate his reign from democratic controls. These elections appeared to confirm his suspicions: Bukele’s popularity is more contingent than he would prefer to admit”
This month, incumbent Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele seemed poised to easily win reelection and sweep the legislature with his New Ideas party. But when his legislative supermajority seemed in doubt, Bukele and his supporters resorted to outright fraud.
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Ah yes, corruption, that uniquely Latin disease
Corruption in Latin America goes back to the time of the conquest and it's not slowing down during the global pandemic,. From Argentina to Panama, politically-connected middlemen are cutting dirty deals for the sale of expired masks and scarce goods
@AP
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This shit would be funnier if it weren’t for the implications of submitting El Salvador’s failing economy to these new financialized modes of imperialist extraction and dependency.
The cryptocircus is in town. El Salvador is diverting public security forces to serve as Bitcoin bro bodyguards, while threatening recipients of foreign aid with jail time.
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Dice que el presidente hizo una lectura tendenciosa, pero fue El Faro que compartió la nota diciendo “ARENA y el FMLN han acordado aliarse”, cuando el texto dice que aún no hay acuerdo sobre “cerrar este trato” y que “aún no se ha terminado de definir la participación del FMLN”
Lo de Bukele con nosotros es esquizofrénico: nos lee por pedazos, muy malamente, nos ataca de oficio, pero nos cita por ratos para atacar a otros “enemigos”. No se distraigan. Este artículo es una historia política fascinante, el inicio de un camino.
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Today we remember the 6 Jesuit priests, their housekeeper & her daughter massacred by US-trained forces at El Salvador’s Jesuit university. I wrote about the murders last year for
@jacobinmag
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Both of these crops are native to the Americas
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ICYMI: I spoke with author & journalist Nina Lakhani about her new book, "Who killed Berta Cáceres?" In this interview, co-published w/
@Nacla
&
@jacobinmag
, she discusses Berta's life, legacy, and the events that led to her murder
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One of Bukele’s first acts as President was to remove Monterrosa’s name from a military barracks, but everything since has only served to reinforce military power and impunity
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I wrote about Bukele’s recent power grab for
@NACLA
: “Whatever its outcome, the crisis, calculatingly contrived by the president, marks the radicalization of his project.”
El Salvador's so-called millennial president flirted with fascism when he ordered armed soldiers into the Salvadoran legislature to demand an international loan package. Editorial board member
@HilaryGoodfrien
details the episode.
#ElSalvador
#Bukele
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As governments across the hemisphere condemn Ecuador’s shocking violation of Mexican sovereignty & international law, the US is quietly increasing security cooperation, with 2 new military agreements in a bid to escalate interventions under the “war on drugs” in the region.
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No se lo pierdan! Hablemos de las elecciones gringas, sus implicaciones para las Américas, y qué significan para la nueva izquierda socialista... Domingo con
@jacobinlat
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Yesterday’s elections in El Salvador ended in chaos, with systemic failures preventing the register & transmission of 30% of presidential ballots & 100% of legislative ballots. The final count may take weeks.
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This piece (with excellent photos by
@_fredramos
) on Bukele's El Salvador is a nice deep dive but, like much recent well-funded reporting, seeks no comments from grassroots opposition organizations and, remarkably, makes zero mention of recent mass marches & protests
El Salvador’s President, Nayib Bukele, promised to radically reduce crime. After a homicide spike, the government instituted a “state of exception,” under which authorities could arrest anyone they considered suspicious. 50,000 people have been detained.
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Mi entrevista con Doctora Julia Evelin Martínez, realizada en enero, hoy se publica en español para
@jacobinlat
: "Es la derecha lo que se está fortaleciendo en El Salvador, mientras la izquierda cada vez está más debilitada, desarticulada y ninguneada"
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Google secured a $500 million contract from the Salvadoran government to provide cloud services and Bukele is trying to claim it’s some kind of investment. Both the president & the US ambassador attended the opening. Embarrassing.
Esta tarde, el Presidente Electo
@nayibbukele
se encuentra inaugurando las nuevas oficinas de
@Google
en El Salvador. 🇸🇻
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My latest for
@jacobinmag
on Bernie's opposition to Reagan's wars in Central America: "The neocons can claim the most spectacular misdeeds in Central America, but the region’s subjugation is a bipartisan project."
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I’ll say it: once again, El Faro’s editors shows their utter contempt for the working class militancies that have sustained El Salvador’s Left. This thoughtless, insensitive image evidences a profound & longstanding problem in this internationally fêted (and funded) publication
Adentro de ese ataud estaban personas asesinadas por miembros de seguridad de este gobierno, por la única y exclusiva razón de ser militantes de un partido político.
Utilizarla para opinar sobre la situación actual de la institución política es una tremenda falta de sensibilidad
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My notes on this 43rd anniversary of Romero's assassination: "Whatever the merits of Jimmy Carter the man, he is also accountable for his service at the helm of the US empire. Romero’s letter below, reprinted in full, is a powerful moral call that Carter chose not to answer."
On this day in 1980, El Salvadoran archbishop Óscar Romero was murdered by US-backed assassins. Only weeks before, he had written to US President Jimmy Carter to withhold support from El Salvador’s military dictatorship. We reprint the letter here in full.
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Romero, killed by US-trained Salvadoran security forces in 1980, is going to be a Saint. Salvadoran church leaders scold folks for “politicizing” his legacy, so just a reminder: his assassination was ordered by Roberto Dabuisson, the founder & leader of the right-wing ARENA party
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El Salvador’s president-elect claims to be “turning the page on the postwar,” by supporting US-backed regime change & imperial hegemony. This as exhumations are underway for victims of the 1981 Mozote massacre, covered up by current Venezuela freedom fighter Elliott Abrams.
The United States will find in El Salvador, not only an ally, but also a friend.
Thank you
@AmbJohnBolton
for your disposition on strengthening our relationship.
God willing, we will be able to do so much, for the benefit of our people.
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