The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is providing technical assistance to El Salvador for the country’s first National Survey on Early Childhood, Children, and Adolescents (ENPINA), a study that seeks to generate statistical data on the population...
El Salvador’s National Artificial Intelligence Agency (ANIA) recently announced the hiring of a former NVIDIA executive who will serve as a senior advisor within the agency, as the Salvadoran government pushes ahead with a series of AI-based projects. The...
The First Criminal Chamber of San Salvador ruled that the criminal proceedings must continue against former president Alfredo Cristiani Burkard for the massacre at the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas, in which six Jesuit priests and two women who worked...
Mercado Cuscatlán has established itself as one of the most expensive monuments to the inefficiency of municipal planning in El Salvador. Launched in 2015 on the promise of modernizing informal commerce, the project never got off the ground, racking up chronic...
Carolina Escobar, mayor of the municipality of Santa Ana Este for the ruling Nuevas Ideas party, publicly announced that she will not participate in her party’s internal elections ahead of the 2027 polls. Speaking in a livestream on her social media accounts,...
ARENA lawmaker Francisco Lira said the government has tried to intimidate precandidates for mayor, city council, and lawmaker so they will not participate in the opposition parties’ primaries. “The Nuevas Ideas government has taken it upon itself to try to intimidate...
