Nayib Bukele, the millennial strongman president of El Salvador, has many admirers. At least 1 million of them now follow an Instagram “fan” account dedicated to him. The account, @Bukele2024, regularly posts videos of Salvadoran gang members in prison, their heads...
The experience during this first year of the 44 new municipal councils, resulting from the Special Law for Municipal Restructuring promoted by the government, could provide sufficient grounds to study the appropriateness of the municipal reduction or even reconsider...
Various international organizations, such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and ECLAC, predict weak economic growth for El Salvador in 2025. In recent days, they have released their reports on economic projections for the region, and all share...
April 2023 was the last time the Superintendencia del Sistema Financiero (SSF) published official statistics on the pension system, after approving a reform in December 2022 that modified several aspects of the law. These statistics detailed monthly the money saved by...
Poverty increased and the government cut spending on health and education. Arbitrary detentions and human rights violations continued to arise due to the state of emergency. There were serious failings in the judicial system. Prison overcrowding persisted, with...
The Trump administration recently sent a diplomatic note to officials in El Salvador to inquire about releasing a Salvadoran immigrant whom government officials have been ordered by the Supreme Court to help free, according to three people with knowledge of the...
