Residents of the Santa Lucía neighborhood in the Los Encuentros canton of the city of Ereguayquín, Usulután Este, continue to wait for the Ministry of Education (MINED) to build the community’s school, which has operated out of a corrugated metal and wood...
Bloomberg Línea — Used clothing now accounts for nearly one in every three garments imported into El Salvador, in a market driven by consumers seeking options up to four times cheaper than new clothing. A report published in April by Garson & Shaw and Full Cycle...
Consumer prices in El Salvador rose 2.2% year-over-year in April 2026, the highest reading since October 2023, accelerating from 1.47% in March. Prices increased at a faster pace for food and non-alcoholic beverages (3.0% vs 2.7%), housing and utilities (1.1% vs...
The love song to the diaspora has false notes. On the eve of the 2027 elections, Bukele ordered that it be granted legislative representation. The justification is a declaration of love. He granted it six seats in recognition of its “contributions” to...
Rebecca Gordon Originally published in TomDispatch. Recently, I had the opportunity to stand in a friend’s kitchen eating pupusas, the Salvadoran national food, while listening to an update on conditions in Central America from Cristosal’s Noah Bullock. Cristosal is a...
To understand the myth, you must first know the man. Roque Dalton wasn’t born the iron-willed revolutionary shown on political posters, nor the acclaimed poet of the anthologies. He was born as the product of a contradiction: the out-of-wedlock son of an...
