The preliminary hearing against the Alas family—accused of swindling 53 Salvadorans out of US$3.4 million—was suspended on Wednesday, 2 July 2025 at the request of the Fiscalía General de la República (Attorney General’s Office, FGR). The court rescheduled the...
Between January and May 2025 the Salvadoran government drew a total of $264.1 million from the savings that workers accumulate in the Administradoras de Fondos de Pensiones (AFP) for their eventual retirement. In May alone, through the issuance of Certificados de...
The BCR’s data show the economy lost more than $500 million in the opening quarter of the year. While output grew 2.3 percent, the rate is 1.52 percentage points below the 3.84 percent logged a year earlier. The Ministry of Finance’s Transparency Portal...
Óscar Bennedetto Sánchez, son of a well-known labor and human-rights defender, walked out of the East San Salvador Police precinct on 1 July—five days after being arrested on 26 June on suspicion of fraud. He is the son of César Bennedetto, a member of the Movimiento...
The body of an 82-year-old man, whose name has not been released, was found on Tuesday in a wooded area of Antiguo Cuscatlán, according to the Fiscalía General de la República (Attorney General’s Office, FGR). The victim, a resident of the La Sultana...
The Colectivo Desaparecidos SOS (SOS Missing Persons Collective) warns that homicides and deaths under suspicious circumstances persisted across El Salvador throughout June, contradicting the government’s public-safety narrative. On 2 June, the body of a woman was...
