El Salvador has 79,094 minors engaged in child labor and permitted work, according to the latest official figures; however, 88.72 percent of that population fall into the former. In other words, 70,171 children and adolescents are engaged in child labor, according to...
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has presented the case of three Guatemalan citizens “arbitrarily” detained in El Salvador to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), the commission announced on Friday, September 27. In a statement...
The “thousand days without homicides” slogan is mere presidential advertising. It does not inform, much less analyze. This advertising, like any other, urges the public to consume the commodified figure of the tenant of Casa Presidencial (Presidential House). The...
View this post on Instagram A post shared by laprensagrafica (@laprensagrafica) The actuarial report that the government will present this week to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will reveal the size of the Salvadoran pension system’s actuarial...
The month of June 2025 will go down in El Salvador’s history as the largest exodus of journalists and civil society members since the armed conflict that devastated the country from 1979 to 1992. This time, Salvadorans are not fleeing civil war, but the regime...
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Tuesday the designation of the Barrio 18 gang as a transnational terrorist organization, accusing it of threatening U.S. national security. With this, the gang joins the same category as its historic rival,...
