04/20/2026
Since taking control of the Assembly in May 2021, the Nuevas Ideas party has approved 13 authorizations for different government institutions to take on debt through the issuance of securities, totaling $9,036.6 million. Securities are a financing mechanism that...
04/20/2026
Informal employment in El Salvador increased by 193,805 jobs between 2014 and 2023, according to the latest update on the informal economy statistics account, published on March 27 by the Central Reserve Bank (BCR). In March 2024, the BCR published the first supply...
04/20/2026
More than 410,600 Salvadoran households live in multidimensional poverty, the 2025 Multipurpose Household Survey (EHPM) revealed. Poverty is primarily measured using two methodologies: the monetary approach, which considers whether a family has the income to buy basic...
04/20/2026
Over the last decade, El Salvador’s public passenger transport fleet shrank by 8%, while business owners in the sector continue to point to financial difficulties in replacing their vehicles. According to data from the National Road Safety Observatory (ONASEVI),...
04/18/2026
Human rights organizations in El Salvador participated in a US congressional hearing this week to address the human rights situation in El Salvador under the state of exception. The session was convened by the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission and included...
04/18/2026
Skeletal remains and clandestine graves discovered nationwide over the past five years do not appear in any subject-specific reports from the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), according to the institution’s Document Administration and Statistics Unit, which...
