Municipal administrations in the western and paracentral regions of the country earned failing grades over the past year, scoring 5.28 and 4.61 respectively, according to surveys conducted by the Research Center (CIMU) of the Western Multidisciplinary Faculty and the...
Not long ago, a summary was published of the 228 observations that the Salvadoran State received at the end of 2024 during the human rights review that the United Nations periodically conducts in all countries. The recommendations revolve around four themes. The first...
The 2025 Global Electoral Integrity Report, from the Electoral Integrity Project of the Royal Military College of Canada and the University of East Anglia (United Kingdom), reveals a significant setback for El Salvador in its most recent electoral process, with a...
The Trump administration’s top diplomat, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, was overseeing a deal to free several Americans and dozens of political prisoners held in Venezuela in exchange for sending home about 250 Venezuelan migrants the United States had deported to El...
Omar García Harfuch, head of the Secretaría de Seguridad y Protección Ciudadana (Security and Citizen Protection Ministry), stated that a light aircraft intercepted in the municipality of Tecomán, Colima, with 428 kilograms of cocaine on board had departed from El...
Much of Salvadoran journalism is in exile. I considered attaching qualifiers—critical, independent, free—but they seemed superfluous. A large share of the journalism that has done what must be done under a dictatorship—question it, obstruct it—now lives abroad. More...
