Redacción Regional launches to cover common threads of corruption and authoritarianism across Central America | Nieman Journalism Lab

In El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele hijacked the political party, Nuevas Ideas, which was formed by members of the Salvadoran diaspora to help him get elected. This narrative, according to a new investigation — the first — from the newly-formed Redacción Regional in Central America, is quite different from what Bukele himself is pushing. Contrary to what the investigation, called República Finquera has found, Bukele has been pushing that he formed the party himself with associates close to him.

Origen: Redacción Regional launches to cover common threads of corruption and authoritarianism across Central America | Nieman Journalism Lab