Only 8% of journalists believe there is complete press freedom in El Salvador, according to a survey featured in the “Worlds of Journalism” study by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas (Centro Knight para el Periodismo de las Américas). The chapter on El...
Owing to their obsolescence and scant depth, these usurpers prove doubly finite. Spanish dictionaries define a usurper as one who seizes—typically through violence—a right or property that legitimately belongs to another. This definition aptly identifies those who...
In Summary The Government reports only 85 homicides in 2025, the lowest figure in a decade, but the data is imprecise. It excludes deaths in armed confrontations, cases classified as accidents, and remains found in clandestine graves. The reduction in homicides did...
Beneficiaries of the Salvadoran Social Security Institute (ISSS) have reported months-long delays in receiving exam results, a situation they attribute to a shortage of medical specialists. One user told YSUCA that she went to the Hospital General de Especialidades...
Beyond the dismantling of the gangs—a development with significant caveats that I personally regard as a “cruel achievement”—the Salvadoran reality is best defined as a “multidimensional crisis.” This crisis is marked by the deepening and worsening of myriad economic,...
The Ministry of Health (MINSAL) has placed under seal information related to four procurement processes conducted between July and November 2025, all classified as urgent and carried out through direct contracting. The purchases involve acquiring medications and...
