The secretary general of the Vamos party, Cesia Rivas, said the party will cooperate with the recent request by the Court of Accounts to carry out a special audit of $98,000 the organization received as political debt reimbursement in 2021. However, the party leader...
Lawmaker Marcela Villatoro, of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena), did not vote to ratify the reform to the first paragraph of Article 79 of the Constitution of the Republic because, she said, it is unknown how the Legislative Assembly will be structured...
The sky over downtown San Salvador was still overcast when doctors, teachers, union members, feminists, relatives of victims of the state of exception, workers from various sectors, and members of other social movements were getting their signs and flags ready to...
By Niko Vorobyov On Friday, March 25, 2022, hundreds of cellphones in the small, Central American nation of El Salvador glowed with the same text message: “Adelante” (“go ahead”). The heavily tattooed gangsters of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) had their order. They went on...
For human rights defenders, the improvement in El Salvador’s security levels comes at a high price: the erosion of democracy and respect for the rule of law. However, they acknowledge that President Nayib Bukele’s government has public support. Measures...
The urban basic food basket (CBA) rose by $1.98 in March and reached its highest price in eight months, the National Office of Statistics and Censuses (Onec) reported. The office, a division of the Central Reserve Bank (BCR), reports that the urban basket increased...
