by Anna Thorner | Jun 25, 2024 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
by Julian Matthew Formadero and Lance Carlo Mendoza In May 2016, with 16 million votes, the Philippines elected Rodrigo Duterte as its 16th president. The foul-mouthed former mayor of Davao, who was a virtual nobody just a year prior, won on a promise of eradicating...
by Anahi Miranda | Nov 18, 2022 | Boston University
Gang members are secured during a police operation at Izalco jail during a 24-hour lockdown ordered by El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele in Izalco, El Salvador. Photograph released by the El Salvador Presidency on April 25, 2020. Photo by El Salvador...
by Brandon Young | Oct 14, 2022 | Ohio State University
El Salvador is a country that many Americans have heard of but very few know a lot about. The nation has experienced a long history of turmoil with several military dictatorships and a civil war that claimed the lives of more than 75,000 people. Against this backdrop,...
by Tobias Choyt | Aug 31, 2022 | Dartmouth College
Presidential election results in El Salvador, the tiny, Latin American nation may seem to be trivial to most Americans. This outlook, however, is far from the truth. In 2019, El Salvador elected a 37 year old populist, iconoclast and political outsider in Nayib...
by Nicole Goshorn | Nov 30, 2021 | University of Georgia
Through the recent capture of an absolute legislative majority, the party of El Salvador’s charismatic President has set in motion a power grab to dismantle the democratic institution. In recent months, El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly has taken action that is...
