Heavy rains Friday night in San Salvador caused streets and rivers to overflow, leading to evacuations and mobilizing emergency services to free motorists stranded by floodwaters. #AHORA | Protección Civil reporta evacuación de personas en la 39 avenida Norte, San...
The approval of the constitutional reform that allows indefinite presidential reelection was no surprise: we knew that opening the way for Nayib Bukele to attempt to entrench himself in power was only a matter of time. And that final assault on democracy and the...
Forget those dystopian images of the infamous prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration has extradited detainees. And never mind that El Salvador’s president calls himself the “world’s coolest dictator.” Because according to the State Department’s recently...
With 57 votes, the Legislative Assembly on Friday approved a budget reform to transfer $15 million in unused funds from the Ministry of Finance to the Presidency of the Republic. The Council of Ministers agreed to the budget reform on July 28, 2025, to...
The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, announced on Thursday night (08.15.2025) the appointment of an Armed Forces captain as Minister of Education—the first such appointment in the country in fifty years. Karla Trigueros, a physician who also advised the...
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has appointed an Armed Forces captain, Karla Trigueros, as the new Minister of Education, tasking her with spearheading a “profound transformation” of the Central American country’s education system....