The First Criminal Chamber of San Salvador ruled that the criminal proceedings must continue against former president Alfredo Cristiani Burkard for the massacre at the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas, in which six Jesuit priests and two women who worked...
Mercado Cuscatlán has established itself as one of the most expensive monuments to the inefficiency of municipal planning in El Salvador. Launched in 2015 on the promise of modernizing informal commerce, the project never got off the ground, racking up chronic...
Carolina Escobar, mayor of the municipality of Santa Ana Este for the ruling Nuevas Ideas party, publicly announced that she will not participate in her party’s internal elections ahead of the 2027 polls. Speaking in a livestream on her social media accounts,...
ARENA lawmaker Francisco Lira said the government has tried to intimidate precandidates for mayor, city council, and lawmaker so they will not participate in the opposition parties’ primaries. “The Nuevas Ideas government has taken it upon itself to try to intimidate...
The average price per megawatt-hour (MWh) traded on the wholesale market in May was $188.15, a figure that reflects an increase of nearly 50% compared to last year, according to the latest monthly report from the Transactions Unit (UT). According to an energy...
The country is facing an economic situation marked by high inflation due to the political context in the Middle East, which in recent months drove up international oil prices — effects that are still being felt locally. Specifically, according to the National...
