From July 1 to 25 of this year, civil society organizations have documented four missing-person alerts, one of which resulted in the individual being found alive this Friday, while the other three remain unresolved. On July 18, relatives of José Francisco Martínez...
At the heart of the swap—involving 252 Venezuelans detained, held incommunicado, mistreated, and abused in CECOT for ten U.S. citizens and residents plus an unknown number of Maduro’s political prisoners—looms Nayib Bukele. He was cast in a role he never actually...
Food prices have resumed their upward march, according to data from the Oficina Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos (National Office of Statistics and Censuses, ONEC). In June, the value of the basic food basket in rural areas hit a 16-month high of $184.56. In February...
Introduction In 2025, the Government of El Salvador and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded an Extended Arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility for a term of 40 months and an amount of $1.4 billion. This program responds to the macroeconomic...
Two financiers of the UCN, a Guatemalan political party tied to the Sinaloa Cartel according to the United States Department of Justice, secured contracts from the Salvadoran government under President Nayib Bukele, as detailed in an investigative piece by journalist...
Avalon Constructores, a company incorporated in El Salvador in August 2023 by two Guatemalan businessmen-politicians, did not just secure seven school-reconstruction contracts worth more than $18.6 million. The DOM also granted the company roughly twenty...
