Most government institutions are failing to comply with the proactive disclosure of information, particularly regarding lists of bidders and contractors, accountability reports, and matters related to citizen participation, according to the “Scorecard: Active...
Today, September 30, 2025, marks the deadline for the government to release the actuarial pension study that will reveal the system’s current status, assess its sustainability, and outline the next steps for the impending reform scheduled for February 2026. The...
The University of El Salvador (UES), the nation’s largest public institution of higher education, is confronting significant challenges. For the 2024-2025 admission cycle, the number of applicants fell to 13,500, far below the 24,000 who historically applied. Of...
Two out of every 100 Salvadoran children lack the basic necessities for survival, according to the latest report from the World Bank and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), published in 2024. The document estimates that more than 35,870 Salvadoran...
Sulma Santos’s last contact with her brother José Osmín was on April 9, a call from the immigration detention center in New York State where he had been held for a couple of weeks. “Sulma, I think they are going to move me,” he said. “Let us talk quickly, because we...
El Salvador’s judicial system has acquitted, for the second time, the five anti-mining environmental leaders from the Santa Marta community, along with three other people, who were accused of a crime that occurred in 1989, in the context of the civil war that ravaged...
