Manuel faced two options: work or study. The household’s finances were far from ideal: his mother is a homemaker, and his father, an employee at a public institution, was laid off. “They eliminated his position,” he said, his voice edged with indignation. Faced with...
The first section of the Pacific Train, one of the flagship projects of the current administration, will cost $300 million, as revealed by the investment and export promotion agency Invest in El Salvador during a recent logistics forum. “The estimated investment for...
In El Salvador, 146,378 children and adolescents between the ages of 4 and 17 do not attend school. Educational enrollment in both public and private institutions has experienced a downturn since 2020, the year the country grappled with the fallout from the COVID-19...
Paz Zetino Gutiérrez, organizing secretary for Bases Magisteriales (Rank-and-File Teachers), deplored that of the nearly 300 schools whose infrastructure the government is overhauling under the “Dos escuelas por día” (Two Schools a Day) program, few have been...
In the decades preceding the outbreak of war, El Salvador was plagued by stark and deepening socioeconomic inequality. When an opposition movement began to form in the midst of the Cold War, tensions quickly escalated, and a guerrilla army formed to respond to the...
The remodeling of the Hospital Nacional Rosales has sown uncertainty among its medical and nursing staff. Nursing personnel interviewed by this outlet revealed that at least 50 percent of hospital services have been dismantled, leading to operational chaos, constant...
