The Bitcoin (XBTUSD) crash has hit few places as hard as El Salvador, laying bare the risks of President Nayib Bukele’s high-stakes cryptocurrency gamble and battering the country’s debt markets. Bukele, an ardent proponent who made the token legal tender alongside...
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) notes that Donald Trump has ceased to be a rhetorical threat and has evolved into a “predator of press freedom.” At the close of the first year of his second term, the U.S. president is cementing his place on the predator...
The Ministry of Health slashed over $70 million from public hospital budgets in 2025, according to official documents and data from the Fiscal Transparency portal. The funds were redirected to bolster a budget line called “technical-regulatory management,”...
The Asociación de Periodistas de El Salvador (Association of Journalists of El Salvador, APES) presented the report *Microphones Under the State of Exception: Nine Out of Ten Community Journalists Are Afraid to Work*, a document that explores the critical landscape of...
El Salvador is experiencing a “decline” in transparency and civic freedoms, according to the 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) report released this Tuesday, February 10, by Transparency International (TI). The CPI ranks 182 countries and territories...
Members of the Movimiento de Víctimas del Régimen (Movement of Victims of the Regime, MOVIR) gathered at the José Martí roundabout to march to the Civic Plaza in the capital. According to Samuel Ramírez, the purpose was to denounce mass trials, given that these...
