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...
Public transport operators said that the extension of the transitional law to stabilize public transportation fares, approved by lawmakers in the Legislative Assembly last Tuesday, deepens their financial crisis, as they can no longer cover operating costs. This...
The head of the Ministry of Education (MINED), Karla Trigueros, published a new memorandum on her social media accounts this Thursday, addressed to teachers and principals of the country’s public schools, stating that, as of September 1, “lunes cívicos” (Civic...
