Following the approval of the Law for the Creation of the National Hospital Network, which includes significant changes to the administration of health centers, unions have expressed concern, branding the measure a “grave setback.” The Salvadoran Medical Association...
The Medical Association and opposition lawmakers criticized the provision in the new Law Creating the National Health Network regarding the mandatory requirement for private and public institutions to respond to government requests for support, without any details on...
Rafael Aguirre, secretary general of the Sindicato Médico de Trabajadores del Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social (Medical Workers’ Union of the Salvadoran Social Security Institute, SIMETRISSS), expressed concern over the Law for the Creation of the National...
The Movimiento Izquierda Salvadoreña (Salvadoran Left Movement, MIS) filed a constitutional challenge on Wednesday against the constitutional reform that enabled indefinite presidential reelection. This is the second such petition received by the Constitutional...
The body of José Dolores Portillo, 52, was found last Tuesday afternoon on a plot of land in the hamlet of Los Barahona, in the Los Rodríguez canton of Santo Domingo, San Vicente Norte. At around 3:00 p.m., residents of the area alerted the police to a deceased...
Amid the reforms President Nayib Bukele has pursued in El Salvador, education has become the latest target for change in recent days. To that end, the president has named military captain Karla Trigueros as his new minister. The captain from the Armed Forces has...
