Seven months before the government created a new waste collection framework, Empresa Transmisora de El Salvador (El Salvador Transmission Company, ETESAL), a state-owned enterprise in the country’s electric power sector, incorporated a company called Recolección...
The government of Costa Rica broadcast a pre-recorded message from Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to announce the installation of scanners in Caldera and the Gastón Kogan Terminal in the Limón area, as well as the construction of a maximum-security prison. “A...
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has stepped into Costa Rica’s electoral campaign with a message endorsing the “continuity” of the current administration’s projects under Rodrigo Chaves—a stance that the ruling party’s...
The recent Pakistan-El Salvador Bitcoin deal exemplifies how the adoption of cryptocurrency can allow emerging economies to circumvent mechanisms of traditional multilateral oversight, and thus represents a potential challenge to the wider architecture of global...
Without prior notice, in mid-August 2025, vehicular access to Poza Verde beach on Lake Ilopango became restricted. First, a dozen one-meter-high concrete posts were installed, clad in black metal with two yellow reflective strips at the top; then, a boom gate with a...
“El Salvador ranks eighth among the 10 safest countries in the world.” This is the latest gimmick of Bukelism to continue entrenching the narrative that since 2023 our country has been “the safest in the Western Hemisphere” and that we are now on our way to becoming...
