In preparation for the new year, Andry Hernández Romero, his best friend and his family are building an año viejo: a human-sized doll made of scrap wood and rags, styled with old clothes and stuffed with fireworks. On New Year’s Eve, when the clock strikes midnight,...
For us, failing to receive hemodialysis amounts to a death sentence. That stark warning comes from kidney failure patients treated at the National Rosales Hospital (Hospital Nacional Rosales), who charge that their lives hang in the balance because hemodialysis—their...
On Tuesday, December 23, hundreds of employees at the Hospital Nacional Rosales were notified of their separation from the institution, regardless of their length of service, work area, or specialty. The news, however, had been looming since the Executive Branch...
From the earliest months of his rise to power, Hitler implemented a strategy to subjugate the churches to Nazi tenets. Fanatical believers in the dictator not only began to inflame hatred against Jews and promote Aryan supremacy, but also to oust devout pastors so as...
The agreement between the Salvadoran government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), reached in December 2024 to unlock up to $1.4 billion in financing, mandates pension system reforms to address its deficit. Yet according to Patricio Pineda, representative of...
Approximately twenty Salvadoran activists protested on Saturday at the Constitution Monument roundabout in San Salvador Centro against the “arbitrary dismissals” of public health system personnel reported this week. They noted that complaints of state...
