The Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social (ISSS) (Salvadoran Social Security Institute) commented on reports about the closure of its community clinics, which provide primary care to beneficiaries. An internal source at the ISSS had previously spoken with El Diario...
During 2024, the OIE spent US$43.5 million, a figure 43 times the original budget approved by the Legislative Assembly—just one million dollars—according to the demonstrative statement of budget execution of expenses by primary units, prepared by the Ministry of...
El Diario de Hoy confirmed, through a source close to Desarrollo Universal, that the multi-million-dollar debt owed by the City Hall of central San Salvador remains unpaid for the rent and purchase of the building still housing the Cuscatlán Market in the capital,...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited one of the Western Hemisphere’s most brutal prisons yesterday for a typical reason: to create some social media content. Noem arrived yesterday at El Salvador’s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT),...
The work Life and Death in a Country without Constitutional Rights, by El Faro photojournalist Carlos Barrera, has won the 2025 World Press Photo award in the Long-Term Projects category in the North and Central American region. The official announcement was made...
The inmate, 45-year-old Valentín Lara López—who was being held at the Quezaltepeque Prison in La Libertad—died on the afternoon of Monday, March 24, while receiving medical treatment at San Rafael National Hospital in Santa Tecla. According to his relatives, Lara...
