The monthly cost of covering a Salvadoran household’s basic needs now exceeds the minimum wage for workers in the commerce, industry, and services sector by more than $100 — a difference that widens when compared with the minimum incomes of other sectors. In...
The impact of the El Niño climate phenomenon in El Salvador translates into a higher cost of living, estimated at 0.64 percentage points in inflation, warns a special report published Monday by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The...
Remittance growth to El Salvador will lose momentum this year amid lower migration, more deportations from the United States, and slower growth in migrants’ incomes, according to a recent report by the Inter-American Dialogue. The study estimates that El...
By Philip Wang When a mother returned to Maryland earlier this year after four months in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention, her children, ages one and four, did not recognize her at first. In her absence, they had lived with Vidal Rivas, an Episcopal...
Claudia Ortiz, the sole principal lawmaker from the opposition party Vamos, on Monday attributed to a party leader one of the audio clips in which a person asserts that a group of professionals is gathering evidence and that they will “proceed” once they...
The National Union of Workers (UNTS) and the Collective of Trade Unionists in Exile reported Monday that they have sent a letter to the International Labour Organization (ILO) to communicate the changes to working hours being analyzed in El Salvador. “This...
