The Ministerio de Obras Públicas (Ministry of Public Works, MOP), the Ministerio de Educación (Ministry of Education, MINED), and the Dirección de Obras Municipales (Municipal Works Directorate, DOM) refused—through various methods—to provide information on contracts,...
The women’s secretaries of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) and Vamos parties maintain that political violence directed against women in El Salvador stifles their involvement in public office, causing the disparity with men to widen ever more...
With standard legislative procedures waived at the request of Nuevas Ideas—as occurs every month—the Legislative Assembly approved the request from the Council of Ministers for another extension of the state of exception decree on Tuesday. Nuevas Ideas, the PDC, and...
This November 25 marks the deadline of seven days that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) granted the Salvadoran State to report on the situation of Salvadoran national Élmer Escobar, who was deported on March 31 and whose family has had no news of...
Trash collection, market administration, municipal works, hospitals, public procurement, and scholarships represent merely a fraction of the functions the central government has consolidated under more than twenty entities created or reformed in the last five years....
A total of 24 Salvadoran women have died in cases classified as femicides, a figure released this Tuesday to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The Organización de Mujeres Salvadoreñas por la Paz (Organization of Salvadoran Women...
