The Ministry of Education (MINED) acknowledged in its 2024-2025 activity report that delays in payments to construction companies have hindered progress on school construction and infrastructure improvement programs. On page 162 of the document submitted to the...
El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, complained to his Costa Rican counterpart, Rodrigo Chaves, after Chaves’s representative to the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE), Alberto Franco, refused to approve funding. The economist stated this in...
On Monday night, Minister of Education Karla Edith Trigueros ordered the immediate dismissal of the director and deputy director of the Instituto Técnico Industrial (Industrial Technical Institute, INTI), a public technical high school in San Salvador. The official...
If there was one thing Melany Raquel Chavarría Mancía knew for sure in life, it was that she wanted to become a healthcare professional. For the last three years, she had worked toward that goal, balancing her studies with a job. She has been supported by her mother,...
The lights came on Monday night on the top level of the new Mercado San Miguelito building, in the capital’s namesake San Miguelito neighborhood. According to vendors, President Nayib Bukele attended and entered the building, although the social media accounts of Casa...
It is no surprise that Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, wants to export the procedures that made him a leading figure among governments that embrace authoritarianism. Bukele is now targeting schools just as he did with prisons, under the banner of...
