The pension deficit and its corresponding debt are a “time bomb” for El Salvador, two analysts agreed during a television interview on Wednesday. El Salvador is on the cusp of a new pension reform recommended by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under...
The Legislative Assembly approved, with 57 votes from Nuevas Ideas, PDC, and PCN, in Wednesday’s plenary session, the 43rd extension of the state of exception. As it does each month, the body fast-tracked the approval. Although the measure was instituted three years...
The draft General State Budget for 2026 amounts to $10,555.6 million, Finance Minister Jerson Posada said as he submitted the document to the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday. That figure is $892 million higher than the current year’s $9,663 million. Posada asserted...
Reporting Highlights A Useful Friendship: A previously undisclosed report alleges Salvadoran President Bukele asked Trump’s ambassador to dismiss an embassy contractor helping U.S. agents investigate top aides. Elevated Status: Ambassador Ronald Johnson played a key...
At 4:46 a.m. on Monday, September 29, bus magnate Catalino Miranda died from “health complications,” family sources confirmed to LA PRENSA GRÁFICA. Miranda had been hospitalized in critical condition for a week, spending his final days under sedation. His family...
In a country where transgender women are now required to identify as “very high-risk men,” four transgender women dressed as beauty queens and surrounded by giant bouquets of flowers throw candy to the thousands of participants of this year’s Pride march. Feminist and...
