In just six years, Nayib Bukele has consolidated an authoritarian regime in El Salvador that represses any form of dissent and systematically violates human rights. Faced with international silence, arbitrary arrests of ordinary citizens, political opponents and civil society actors, threats against journalists and reports of torture in prisons continue. The country has now spent three years under a state of emergency, without judicial guarantees and while legalizing spying on the opposition. How can civil society continue to operate within El Salvador? And what of those forced into exile? How can political pluralism be rebuilt while a virtually single-party system operates and the president maintains an extremely high level of popularity? From the perspective of those fighting for the rule of law and human rights, what democratic horizon exists for El Salvador?