The Legislative Assembly is preparing to ratify a constitutional reform to create a special electoral district for the diaspora; reforms to secondary legislation will be taken up “later,” Ernesto Castro announced, while ARENA lawmaker Marcela Villatoro is...
Lawyer for the Dismissed Workers Movement (MTD). The Ministry of Labor’s announcement about reinstating workers this May 1 stands in stark contrast to the country’s procedural and technical reality. In his own statement, the Minister has raised the...
A group of teachers, along with representatives from teachers’ unions, arrived Monday morning, May 4, at the Finance Ministry with the goal of delivering a letter to the head of the institution, Jerson Posada, requesting that the financial compensation be paid...
Lawmaker Marcela Villatoro, of the Nationalist Republican Alliance (Arena), did not vote to ratify the reform to the first paragraph of Article 79 of the Constitution of the Republic because, she said, it is unknown how the Legislative Assembly will be structured...
The Association of Journalists of El Salvador (APES) reported Wednesday that it has recorded at least 426 attacks against the press in 2025, with 53 media workers “pushed into exile” and state-linked actors identified as the main perpetrators. The figures...
The Legislative Assembly, controlled by the ruling party Nuevas Ideas, eliminated the role political parties had in nominating three of the five magistrates who make up the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE). That role was a power established in an October 1991...
