Tag: Nayib Bukele

  • Nayib Bukele and the Working-Class Struggle in El Salvador

    Nayib Bukele and the Working-Class Struggle in El Salvador

    This article analyzes the emergence of Nayib Bukele as a political figure in El Salvador from a Marxist materialist perspective. Bukele’s ascent is the result of both the failure of capitalist neoliberalist policies and the lack of a working-class struggle instrument. The author concludes that the only alternative lies in constructing a democratic political movement […]

  • When Media Tell Us Who “Won” a Latin American Election, Start to Ask Questions

    When Media Tell Us Who “Won” a Latin American Election, Start to Ask Questions

    AP (4/13/25) attributes Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa’s re-election to “voters weary of crime”—even though murders rose sharply under his administration. Elections in Latin America are often controversial. While many countries in the Global North regularly shuffle between parties offering alternating versions of neoliberalism, voting in Central and South America often offers starker contrasts: An anti-imperialist […]

  • Trump Targets Migrants amid Human Trafficking Allegation

    Donald Trump has launched an aggressive campaign that targets Latino migrants – particularly Venezuelans – as scapegoats in a broader geopolitical agenda. Bolstered through a controversial alliance with the Salvadoran president, Trump has overseen mass deportations, detentions in Guantánamo Bay and El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison, and invoked 18th-century war powers to justify these actions. […]

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