Users of public hospitals and the Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social (Salvadoran Social Security Institute) denounced the chronic shortage of medications, delays in medical care, and substandard conditions at multiple hospital facilities across the country on the...
Ahead of Colombian singer Shakira’s concert in El Salvador, several public institutions announced that staff would work remotely today, while others reported that employees would only work until 12:00 noon. The measure seeks to ease mobility and reduce traffic...
When President Bukele was questioned about human rights violations under his security policy—particularly regarding those detained in the CECOT—he responded: “(Human rights) we all have them. Prisoners have them, criminals have them, drug traffickers have them,...
The ideological and propagandistic war waged by the right—across its many variants—in Latin America fixates on three favorite supervillains: Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. This “axis of evil”—to borrow the phrase coined by George Bush’s advisor David Frum...
The Mesa Nacional del Transporte (National Transportation Roundtable) in El Salvador denounced on Friday that the sector has gone at least eight months without receiving the compensation or subsidy payment established under the Transitional Law for the Stabilization...
When the cops arrived at a party in Cantón la Estancia, a tiny hamlet in the shadow of the San Miguel volcano, Walter Josué Huete Alvarado didn’t think he had any reason to worry. He had a minor infraction on his criminal record — a DUI when he was a teenager — but...
