The World Bank on Wednesday reduced the growth rate projection for the Salvadoran economy by five-tenths of a percentage point, lowering it to 2.2% on April 23 from the 2.7% it had predicted last October. This is the lowest projected growth rate in the region,...
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has become the face of the migrants deported to El Salvador for a simple reason: He was the one whose process rights were most trampled by the mass deportation, since a judge had formerly ruled he couldn’t be deported there and administration...
The Andes 21 de Junio teachers’ union has reported that the salaries of 44 teachers who have been reinstated to their jobs after being acquitted in administrative and judicial proceedings have not been paid. On Wednesday, at a press conference, the union...
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele lambasted his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro, on Tuesday (Apr. 22, 2025) for rejecting his proposal to exchange migrants deported from the United States and imprisoned in El Salvador for “political prisoners.”...
Arguing that they are not criminals, family members of Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States to a megaprison in El Salvador on Tuesday rejected the prisoner exchange proposal made by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to the Nicolás Maduro regime. On...
Lourdes Palacios is a former FMLN lawmaker and served as an official in the government of President Salvador Sánchez Cerén. Today, representing the Committee of Relatives of Political Prisoners in El Salvador (COFAPPES), she refutes President Nayib Bukele’s...
