El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has stepped into Costa Rica’s electoral campaign with a message endorsing the “continuity” of the current administration’s projects under Rodrigo Chaves—a stance that the ruling party’s...
The recent Pakistan-El Salvador Bitcoin deal exemplifies how the adoption of cryptocurrency can allow emerging economies to circumvent mechanisms of traditional multilateral oversight, and thus represents a potential challenge to the wider architecture of global...
Without prior notice, in mid-August 2025, vehicular access to Poza Verde beach on Lake Ilopango became restricted. First, a dozen one-meter-high concrete posts were installed, clad in black metal with two yellow reflective strips at the top; then, a boom gate with a...
“El Salvador ranks eighth among the 10 safest countries in the world.” This is the latest gimmick of Bukelism to continue entrenching the narrative that since 2023 our country has been “the safest in the Western Hemisphere” and that we are now on our way to becoming...
Because in El Salvador today the practice of journalism is a persecuted act of resistance, we have transferred the legal, tax, and financial operations of FOCOS to Costa Rica, initiating the dissolution of our corporate entity in El Salvador. Not by choice, but...
The Cuscatlán Market, inaugurated in 2016 as a cornerstone of the capital’s modernization efforts, was left practically empty this week following the eviction of all vendors operating on the premises. The vendors confirmed they received notifications to...
