Over the past 34 years, the face of El Salvador has changed drastically. What in 1992 was a balance between the countryside and the city now tilts definitively toward asphalt. According to data from the Fifth Population Census and Fourth Housing Census and two...
Housing prices in El Salvador doubled in a decade. According to data from the National Registry Center (CNR), the price per square meter went from $124 in 2016 to $276 in 2026, an increase reflected not only in the statistics but also in the everyday experience of...
The secretary general of the Union of Medical Workers of the Salvadoran Social Security Institute (SIMETRISSS), Dr. Rafael Aguirre, is facing a termination process from the institution for, he explained, spreading information about medication shortages. He claims he...
On Saturday, El Salvador joined a joint declaration in which Guatemala, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, and Peru the day before rejected “any action aimed at destabilizing the democratic order” in Bolivia, where protests by peasant...
Why do museums sustain the future of a society? Every May 18, the world pauses to reflect on the meaning of those spaces we commonly call museums. Far from being mere cold warehouses of static objects or simple exhibition venues, these institutions act as the true...
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Association and Assembly, Gina Romero, urged El Salvador to guarantee freedom and a “fair trial” for anticorruption lawyer and human rights defender Ruth López, detained almost a year ago. “What is...
