In recent months, employees of the Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social (Salvadoran Social Security Institute, ISSS) have sounded the alarm over what they see as signs of an impending merger with the Ministerio de Salud (Ministry of Health, MINSAL). After weeks of...
According to official records, at least three fires have ravaged publicly administered markets over the past year, jeopardizing the livelihoods of hundreds of self-employed vendors in the districts of San Salvador, San Miguel, and Soyapango. On August 2, 2024, flames...
The number of detainees who have died while in the custody of El Salvador’s security forces under the state of exception imposed in March 2022 has risen to 427, the non-governmental organization Socorro Jurídico Humanitario (Legal Humanitarian Aid, SJH) reported on...
One year ago, an evangelical pastor was compelled to flee El Salvador after facing police persecution for bringing food to detainees swept up in the state of exception and held in the holding cells known as El Penalito, in San Salvador. She is relating her story only...
Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic erupted, the families of physicians who lost their lives after contracting the virus while caring for the Salvadoran population have watched as the promised compensation faded into oblivion. Once the pandemic’s peak had passed,...
According to the figures officially released by the Ministerio de Salud (Ministry of Health, Minsal), El Salvador ranked among the countries with the lowest COVID-19 mortality in 2020. Yet during the same period, deaths attributed to other causes surged threefold,...
