This year, El Salvador entered into an Extended Fund Facility (EFF) agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that entails a fiscal adjustment of 3.5% of the gross domestic product (GDP). A key component of this adjustment is the “rationalization of the...
Figures from the Encuesta de Hogares de Propósitos Múltiples (Multi-Purpose Household Survey, EHPM), published by the BCR on its official website, indicate that the total number of remittance recipients fell from 1,626,357 in 2023 to 1,575,815 in 2024, a decrease of...
Tables from the 2024 Multipurpose Household Survey (EHPM), published by the BCR, show that a total of 588,917 people were living in extreme poverty in 2023, compared to the 610,272 recorded in 2024. The 2024 figure also exceeds that of 2022, which stood at 578,801...
On Saturday, the ARENA party blamed Nuevas Ideas and a poorly drafted legislative decree for a 30% tax on family remittances that, according to a Nuevas Ideas lawmaker, some Salvadorans have reported. “For every $100 your family sends, imagine them taking $30 by law?...
The Sindicato de Médicos Trabajadores del ISSS (ISSS Medical Workers’ Union, SIMETRISSS) projects that 2025 will be one of the most critical years for the Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social (Salvadoran Social Security Institute, ISSS). The lack of...
Three years ago, historian Eduardo Posada Carbó alluded in his column for the newspaper El Tiempo to Jan-Werner Müller and his book *Democracy Rules* (2021). In this work, the author reflects on the crisis of democracy and his concern over the rise of authoritarian...
