por El Salvador Now | 02/04/2023 | El Salvador Now
The Mara Salvatrucha-13, the Revolucionarios or Sureños factions of 18th Street and other smaller gangs like the Mao-Mao, La Mirada Locos, and CODEMAR no longer operate in the streets of El Salvador — or at least not as they had before. After ten months in a state of...
por El Salvador Now | 02/03/2023 | El Salvador Now
For example, the construction of the hospital to attend covid-19 patients was announced as a spectacle, and it was also inaugurated as a virtual spectacle. However, unofficial media are still not allowed to enter the facilities. The reason is apparent: not to expose...
por El Salvador Now | 02/03/2023 | El Salvador Now
Contrary to the expectation of the Ministry of Finance that the country’s rating would improve as of this year, Fitch Ratings reaffirmed that it would maintain El Salvador’s rating at ‘CC,’ as it considers that, despite the pension reform and...
por El Salvador Now | 02/03/2023 | El Salvador Now
El Salvador continues to be seen as a «hybrid regime.» Still, it has degraded its evaluation in the five categories that the English magazine «The Economist» -a specialist in international relations and economy- takes into account for elaborating its democracy...
por El Salvador Now | 02/02/2023 | El Salvador Now
The government of Nayib Bukele is wrong to believe that «a deep problem» of generalized violence can be hidden by locking it up in prison, even though it goes against international rules such as the United Nations (UN) Mandela Rules. Human rights experts’...