One year ago, an evangelical pastor was compelled to flee El Salvador after facing police persecution for bringing food to detainees swept up in the state of exception and held in the holding cells known as El Penalito, in San Salvador. She is relating her story only...
Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic erupted, the families of physicians who lost their lives after contracting the virus while caring for the Salvadoran population have watched as the promised compensation faded into oblivion. Once the pandemic’s peak had passed,...
According to the figures officially released by the Ministerio de Salud (Ministry of Health, Minsal), El Salvador ranked among the countries with the lowest COVID-19 mortality in 2020. Yet during the same period, deaths attributed to other causes surged threefold,...
Every July 14, El Salvador commemorates Doctor’s Day, a date meant to honor the dedication of those who safeguard the population’s health. This year, however, the medical community is mired in institutional precarity, a shortage of specialists, and a glaring...
Dr. Iván Solano Leiva, president of the Medical College of El Salvador (COLMEDES), spoke about the condition of the country’s health system and how it could be strengthened through a national health plan—which he insists must include all stakeholders: the Ministry of...
Few people recall the national beach-soccer team’s first World Cup match, and even fewer remember the score line: El Salvador lost 8–2 to Portugal. What no one is likely to forget is that Saúl Blanco Hernández became the first Salvadoran ever to score for the national...
