Prisons across Latin America were already bursting at the seams when the “Bukele security model,” characterized by a state of exception that has led to unprecedented numbers of detentions and mass incarceration, began to be embraced by other politicians who have...
On the day Nadia Lissette Portal secured a position as an administrative technician at the Registro Nacional de las Personas Naturales (RNPN), she set aside her training as a general physician and embarked on a career in El Salvador’s foreign service in the...
This new center for fairs and conventions will rise on a portion of the last remaining remnant in the southern flank of the El Espino forest, situated at the end of the Cancillería and Monseñor Romero boulevards in the district of Antiguo Cuscatlán, La Libertad Este....
“What is the point of saying anything? I cannot get my son’s life back.” These are the words of the father of Kevin Balmore Valencia Guillén, who died on Friday, October 24, after suffering an electric shock while performing labor for the Zero...
The Government of El Salvador has eliminated 4,996 jobs in the public sector between June 2024 and June 2025, as officially detailed in the most recent report from the Salvadoran Labor Market Information System (SIMEL) of the Ministry of Labor. This report indicates...
The debt tied to the pension system surged by $544.7 million between January and September 2025, according to the latest report from the Ministry of Finance. This pushed the total balance of this obligation to $11,070.6 million, equivalent to 30.2 percent of gross...
