Christian Guevara, head of the Nuevas Ideas caucus, posted a photograph on Wednesday taken in Washington, United States. In the photograph, lawmaker Guevara poses against a rainy Washington, D.C. backdrop. The image is already being shared by his colleagues, such as...
On Wednesday, the Legislative Assembly approved the new Geothermal Energy Law, with which the government seeks to attract new investment projects in geothermal energy in the country. According to the bill, the purpose of the statute is “to regulate the prospecting,...
Cristosal’s director, Noah Bullock, argued that the Foreign Agents Law (Ley de Agentes Extranjeros, LAEX) is less a regulatory framework than a framework for repression against civil society organizations in El Salvador. “This is not a regulatory framework; it is a...
I was working in El Salvador when President Nayib Bukele declared a state of exception. In 2022, after a sudden spike in homicides, he suspended due process and sent soldiers into neighborhoods. Overnight, thousands were detained. Many were guilty. Many were not....
The Fundación para el Desarrollo de las Ciencias Sociales (Foundation for the Development of the Social Sciences, Fudecso) announced on Monday its dissolution after 33 years of operation in El Salvador due to “the current political situation” and the application of...
The wake was held at the Jesuit Rafael Landívar University in Guatemala City, where he died of cardiac arrest on September 5 at the age of 78. “We must pay him the tribute he deserves for all the work he did for Central America,” Spain’s ambassador to Guatemala, Clara...
