El Salvador has increasingly turned to international policing mechanisms to extend its anti-gang campaign beyond its borders since President Nayib Bukele declared a state of emergency in March 2022, a new InSight Crime report has revealed. As a result, the country has...
Schools will receive $300 to purchase flags, white gloves, and other necessities for implementing the civic ceremonies, which must be held every Monday beginning September 1. Memorandum No. 05-2025, issued by Minister of Education Karla Trigueros to school principals...
The United States is the destination for more than 30% of what El Salvador exports and is its largest trading partner, with sales ranging from textile items (socks, knit T-shirts, sweaters, pantyhose) to electrical capacitors, sugar, and many other goods, as well as...
“We anticipate that the solidarity fund of the defined-contribution pension system will exhaust its reserves within our forecast horizon,” states the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P Global) in its latest report on El Salvador, which updated the...
In Reyes’s view, the current management of the PNC is designed to force its collapse or weaken it to the point of dissolution, in order to assign public security duties to another government body, such as the army. He made these statements on August 21, 2025, in an...
Authoritarianism is advancing at breakneck speed in the country, and, predictably, as it has escalated, fear among the population has grown. For many people, that is the price to pay for security, a vital good denied to them for decades. They know rights are being...
