Nayib Bukele came to power on an anti-corruption platform, but after six years in power, his government is among the most questioned for the immense opacity with which it operates. Meanwhile, during the same period, his family clan and 28 of his officials have...
The director and deputy director of the National Technical Industrial Institute (INTI) in San Salvador, Óscar Manuel Melara Rubio and Eliezer Otoniel Delgado, respectively, were dismissed from their posts, allegedly without due process. This has alarmed the teaching...
The company Nuevo Sistema de Mercados, S.E.M. de C.V. (Simerca), which manages various markets in San Salvador, including Hula Hula, reported losses of $479,943 during 2024. This was not the first year of red ink. For the second consecutive year, external auditors...
Simerca, the company managing several San Salvador markets, has filed civil lawsuits against 177 Hula Hula market tenants who could no longer afford their stalls. Some of the vendors in this market were originally evicted from Rubén Darío street by the capital’s...
Social media has been laughing at reports that El Salvador has split its bitcoin (BTC) holdings across 14 addresses, allegedly to protect against quantum hacks. The country’s Bitcoin Office, managed by Max Keiser’s colorful wife Stacy Herbert, claimed that the move...
United States Republican Senator Ted Cruz reported on Wednesday that he met with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, with whom he discussed “cutting-edge” counter-terrorism tactics to “combat” gangs, also known as maras. On the social media...
