The Ministry of Labor’s proposal to concentrate the 44 weekly working hours into 11- or 10-hour workdays represents, according to trade union and women’s organizations, a change that could deepen the inequalities women workers already face, especially those employed...
David left El Salvador in May 2014 bound for the United States in search of “a better future,” to find work and help his family, but he never arrived. In December 2023, Omar Jarquín, his father, was notified of the discovery of the remains in a desert area...
Economist Rafael Lemus warned that the increase in the general State budget for 2027 does not guarantee better public services or new social programs for the population living in poverty, due to the growth of the debt, the fiscal deficit and the lack of capacity to...
Amid the bustle of a livestock market in El Salvador, cows with their skin clinging to their ribs stand out. Their owners will sell them, at a reduced price, before they die from the drought caused by the El Niño phenomenon. The haggling begins very early at the fair...
Students in the Bachelor’s program in Social Sciences at the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA) presented studies on the working conditions of women who gather curiles, hammock artisans, gravediggers, and women who engage in digital sex work, during...
The vice president of El Salvador, Félix Ulloa, took part in a meeting with the Executive Committee of the Senate, where he highlighted the work his government is carrying out in the areas of security, public health and education, among others. The senators took...
