The president of the Legislative Assembly, Ernesto Castro, in an interview with the pro-government Diario El Salvador, touted budgetary austerity in the first branch of government. “Castro explained that previously around 1,000 positions were being paid for...
On February 2, Radio YSUCA reported the life-threatening situation facing a kidney patient from Cojutepeque who was unable to access dialysis at Hospital Nacional Zacamil in San Salvador. The patient required the procedure every eight days; however, staff at Hospital...
The government of President Nayib Bukele continued to remove checks on executive power and increased its repression of human rights defenders and critics. In July, the Legislative Assembly, controlled by the ruling party, amended the Constitution to remove...
The Movimiento de Víctimas del Régimen (MOVIR) of El Salvador published an open letter on social media on Saturday calling on the government not to use Shakira’s concerts to “cover up” what the group alleges are persistent injustices in the Central...
The architects of democratic blackout reveal themselves as leaders capable of dragging vast masses of citizens to the system’s periphery, there to cross the Acheron. As in *Rhinoceros*, Ionesco’s theater-of-the-absurd play that turned the inhabitants of a...
In El Salvador, the pension system has become the focal point of public debate in recent days—not out of any urgency to improve post-retirement benefits or extend coverage to the majority of the working population, but because of the financial pressure bearing down on...
