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Lessons from El Salvador: Bukele’s “Peace Model”

Jan 30, 2025 | Spotlight: Peacebuilding

Throughout 2024, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele incessantly repeated that his tough measures against violent gangs finally brought peace to the country.

Postwar Kids

Feb 4, 2016 | El Salvador, Perspectives, El Salvador

It’s not a good time to have great hopes for Salvadoran politics, especially if you are a young Salvadoran. As I write this, in mid-February, the country is still debating the legacy of former…

El Faro

Jun 22, 2011 | Journalism of the Americas, New Voices

El Faro got its start as an online medium in San Salvador in 1998. El Salvador had just emerged from 12 years of a cruel civil war. The 1992 peace agreements, signed between a rightist government (and its army) and a leftist guerrilla force (the FMLN), marked a new beginning…

Author: Carlos Dada

Lessons from El Salvador: Bukele’s “Peace Model”

Postwar Kids

El Faro