Introduction In 2025, the Government of El Salvador and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded an Extended Arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility for a term of 40 months and an amount of $1.4 billion. This program responds to the macroeconomic...
Two financiers of the UCN, a Guatemalan political party tied to the Sinaloa Cartel according to the United States Department of Justice, secured contracts from the Salvadoran government under President Nayib Bukele, as detailed in an investigative piece by journalist...
Avalon Constructores, a company incorporated in El Salvador in August 2023 by two Guatemalan businessmen-politicians, did not just secure seven school-reconstruction contracts worth more than $18.6 million. The DOM also granted the company roughly twenty...
Amid the rollout of two new vaccines into the national immunization schedule, Health Minister Francisco Alabí addressed spending on this front during an interview on Channel 21’s *Diálogo* program. “And here is something worth emphasizing: we have gone...
Championed by Bukele, the law took effect on June 7 after being approved by the Congress, which is dominated by his ruling party. Echoing legislation in Russia, Venezuela, and Nicaragua that restricts NGO activity, it imposes a 30 percent tax on donations these groups...
Several of the Venezuelans who were sent back home from the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot) in El Salvador were left with scars on their wrists and ankles. Kneeling with their hands behind their backs or walking crouched down with their hands and feet in...
