Nayib Bukele’s sixth year in government continues to be marked by opacity, and one year into his second term, the appointment agreements for the cabinet of ministers have still not been disclosed. Bukele is constitutionally mandated to deliver an accountability...
Representatives of different business sectors in the country and economic experts have preferred to avoid expressing their opinions publicly in El Salvador for fear of reprisals, but although they have lowered the volume of their voices, they have not been silenced....
Nayib Bukele likes to present himself as the cool president who, along with Donald Trump and Javier Milei, wages the cultural battles of the new right with the 21st century’s most efficient political weapons: social media. But, to shield his power from the...
I have spent the last two weeks listening to testimonies from people in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and even Argentina, who are victims of espionage, harassment, and persecution by state agents, whether intelligence officers, prosecutors from the Ministerio...
The Índice de Bonos de Mercados Emergentes (Emerging Market Bond Index, EMBI) compiled by J.P. Morgan has risen steadily since mid-February, making El Salvador the country with the region’s highest EMBI and pushing it above the Latin American average while displacing...
El Salvador’s total public debt balance reached $33.13 billion in April, including commitments with the Pension Fund, according to the Banco Central de Reserva (Central Reserve Bank, BCR). It jumped by $629.83 million in a single month. This is the most...
