Natalia was one semester away from finishing her culinary arts degree at a higher education institution. The 21-year-old had told her family that she would resume her studies next January and finish the remaining courses. She will not fulfill her dream. Natalia Raquel...
Approximately one in ten people in El Salvador lives in extreme poverty, according to the Encuesta de Hogares de Propósitos Múltiples (Multipurpose Household Survey, EHPM) 2024, recently released by the Banco Central de Reserva (Central Reserve Bank, BCR). In the...
Fifteen years ago almost nobody had heard of Bitcoin. Now it’s a frequent topic of global debate – nowhere more than in the tiny Central American nation of El Salvador: the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. President Nayib Bukele made...
I. The Deception They are going to rebuild it soon. They are going to make it beautiful. Those were the words Esmeralda Ramos heard that August morning in 2023 when the principal informed them that the Caserío El Amatillo School, located in central Santa Ana, would be...
El Salvador is, once again, under a dictatorship. It has become evident that the government of Nayib Bukele has revived the weaponization of state institutions for his personal benefit and the political persecution of those who do not align with his interests and...
Though not yet over, 2025 is a watershed year in El Salvador’s recent democratic era. More than thirty years after the signing of the Peace Accords, individuals and institutions once again face persecution for their ideas, for defending basic human rights, or...
