By James Wagner Across El Salvador, hundreds of inmates appear in court by video simultaneously for a single, joint hearing. Some lawyers say that they are first meeting their clients on the same day as their trial. And individual anonymous witnesses are testifying...
Starting in 2027, the Municipal Works Directorate (DOM) will have 284 employees whose salary will be greater than $2,300 per month. This is set out in the institution’s draft budget, which forms part of the draft submitted by the Ministry of Finance to the...
The organization Cristosal warned about the risks associated with the accumulation of bitcoin by the Salvadoran State, through private donations, and questioned the lack of public information about the identity of the donors, the amounts and the dates of the...
By Simon Romero The sun was just about to set in El Salvador one September day when President Nayib Bukele debuted his new passion project. Even by the exacting standards of Latin American political showmanship, it was jaw-dropping. Clad like a Napoleonic general in a...
The Ministry of Finance programmed a total of $42,145,645 in the 2027 General State Budget bill as part of the special extraordinary budgets for the general elections of February 28, 2027. In December 2025, the Legislative Assembly approved $172.1 million in two...
Nercy Montano, who was mayor of Soyapango between 2021 and 2022 for the Nuevas Ideas party, faces a new trial starting this October 8, 2026, related to the crimes of arbitrary acts and disobedience. According to what the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic...
