The main association monitoring attacks on journalists in El Salvador has become the latest victim of the country’s controversial Foreign Agents Law. The Salvadoran Journalists Association (APES, for its acronym in Spanish) announced on Oct. 1 that it will go into...
The collapse of an earthen slope onto a home claimed the life of a woman identified as Nancy Verónica Mejía Cruz, 32, this Tuesday. The incident occurred at the end of the main street in the Beatriz neighborhood of Ciudad Delgado, in San Salvador Centro. The...
The director general of Civil Protection, Luis Amaya, acknowledged this Monday that the surge in urban flooding in El Salvador directly correlates with tree felling and the proliferation of housing developments without proper territorial planning. During a televised...
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) will examine on the merits the May 1, 2021, removal of the justices of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of El Salvador, after the Legislative Assembly waived ordinary procedure. The human...
For 2026, the Universidad de El Salvador (University of El Salvador, UES) will have $116.5 million for its operations, according to the proposed General State Budget presented by the Ministerio de Hacienda (Ministry of Finance) on September 30. The assigned amount,...
The Legislative Assembly’s Political Commission interviewed the five candidates vying to lead the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman (PDDH) on Monday and approved a favorable report for electing the new head, though it has yet to announce the plenary session...
