At least 53 journalists have left El Salvador in recent months, the Central American Network of Journalists (RCP) reported at the Parliament of Catalonia, Spain, on November 25. The organization denounced harassment by agents of the National Civil Police (PNC), the...
The upward trajectory of public debt continues unabated. According to the latest data from the BCR, total public debt—which encompasses the non-financial public sector, the financial public sector, and pensions—reached $33,805 million in October. This figure marks an...
The issuance of Treasury Bills and Treasury Certificates (LETES and CETES)—short-term debt instruments—reached a total outstanding balance of $1,292 million as of October this year, according to the debt profile report from the Ministerio de Hacienda (Ministry of...
José Antonio Kast has committed another grave error. It remains unclear whether this stems from indolence, ignorance, or sabotage by his inner circle in inviting El Salvador’s Minister of Justice and Security, Gustavo Villatoro, to Chile. Villatoro is a shadowy...
“We need more Bukele and less Boric,” the Republican Party candidate has declared, as he vies for the presidency of the South American nation in the December 14 runoff, alluding to the policies of the Salvadoran president in contrast to those of his...
The law is often presented as the great guarantor of justice and peaceful coexistence. It is frequently said that “no one is above the law” and that norms protect all people equally. However, daily experience and recent history reveal a different, uncomfortable...
