“We are running short on medical staff,” warned Dr. Rafael Aguirre, secretary general of the Sindicato de Médicos Trabajadores del Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social (Union of Physicians Employed by the Salvadoran Social Security Institute, SIMETRISSS), on Julio...
On August 5, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) presented its Economic Survey, highlighting low growth for El Salvador. The organization has once again reduced its estimates. According to the new data, El Salvador will grow by 2.4%...
“The second plea is that the honorable lawmakers reconsider the constitutional reforms, recently approved by the full legislative body without consultation. For a constitutional reform to be legitimate, the people must be consulted,” he stated during the...
The Trump administration’s move four months ago to send more than 230 Venezuelan migrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador known as CECOT took a staggering toll, not only on the men themselves but also on their families. The men were released to Venezuela...
After a few hours in the air, Neri Alvarado Borges and the other Venezuelans on a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flight landed in Honduras. Alvarado was hopeful. He had been detained by ICE in Texas in early February. Told he could face years in...
The government’s Dos Escuelas por Día (Two Schools per Day) program has marked two months since its launch; teachers’ unions are analyzing it and doubt that the pledge can be fulfilled because of how ambitious it is. Since its launch on May 22, the Executive Branch...
