The cost of the national hospital under construction in the Nejapa district skyrocketed in 2023 and 2024, and it is now headed for a year-and-a-half delay—potentially two years if it is completed in 2026, as mentioned by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the...
On Sunday, a further 21 bitcoins were added to the government’s holdings of the cryptocurrency, which has been legal tender in El Salvador since September 7, 2021. Marking the fourth anniversary of its adoption, President Nayib Bukele reported the new purchase on his...
The latest annual report from the Office of the Attorney General (FGR) reveals that between June 1, 2024, and May 31, 2025, a total of 98,671 crimes were committed in El Salvador, averaging 270 per day. Of these, authorities only publicly detail the so-called “crimes...
It all happened too fast. I was sitting in a coffee shop in Guatemala City with fellow journalist José Luis Sanz, drinking a passion fruit and cardamom frozen drink. As usual, we had stored our phones in our backpacks in order to speak freely. It had been four years...
The Presidency of the Republic has placed under seal the cost and details of the trip taken by Vice President Félix Ulloa and Nuevas Ideas lawmakers Alexia Rivas and Edgardo Mulato to Melbourne, Australia, for the launch of the Australia-El Salvador Chamber of...
No ally has proven as useful to Bukele as the gangs. The deals he began forging during his first campaign for the mayoralty of San Salvador—through Sliptone—laid the foundation for the regime that now threatens to entrench itself in El Salvador. The secret release of...
