by El Salvador Now | 03/20/2023 | El Salvador Now
Sandra could see her brother after several weeks of not hearing from him. In the second week of March, the woman managed to enter La Esperanza Penal Center, one of the largest prisons in El Salvador, to bring food, medicine, and a bit of conversation to her relative,...
by El Salvador Now | 03/20/2023 | El Salvador Now
Between 2020 and 2022, more than 2,000 Salvadorans fled their communities and sought refuge in other parts of the country or even abroad. Neither the COVID-19 pandemic nor the state of exception against detainees stopped the displacement phenomenon driven by violence...
by El Salvador Now | 03/19/2023 | El Salvador Now
The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, through the Senate and House Foreign Relations Chairmen, Congressman Michael McCaul and Senator Robert “Bob” Menendez, sent a letter to four Central American countries (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and...
by El Salvador Now | 03/19/2023 | El Salvador Now
They explain that the municipality did not give them alternatives either. “Where is Bukele, the one who was going to help us. We blindly voted for him and has stabbed us in the back and this is going to remain in history… the next generations will realize all...
by El Salvador Now | 03/19/2023 | El Salvador Now
The reforms to the Directorate of Municipal Works (DOM) promoted by Nayib Bukele’s government gives this entity the power to go into debt without any limit. Among the regulations that were received in the last plenary session is a proposed amendment to...
by El Salvador Now | 03/18/2023 | El Salvador Now
Dear officials: The referee blew the whistle, and the game began. A few minutes into the game, one of the forwards from the cyan team was given a red card. He had shoved the linesman who called him offside and then hit a defender from the opposing team below the belt....