“Ruth Eleonora López is the winner of the 2025 Magnitsky Award for Outstanding Human Rights Lawyer, celebrating her tireless defense of victims of injustice and her pivotal role in the fight against corruption and for accountability in El Salvador,” the Campaña Global...
The layoffs spread like a silent epidemic in 2024. Health-sector union sources estimate that in December of last year alone, there were 200 dismissals at the Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social (Salvadoran Social Security Institute, ISSS). Those hit hardest were...
This article analyzes the emergence of Nayib Bukele as a political figure in El Salvador from a Marxist materialist perspective. Bukele’s ascent is the result of both the failure of capitalist neoliberalist policies and the lack of a working-class struggle instrument....
Consumer prices in El Salvador rose 0.94% year-over-year in October 2025, following a 0.36% increase in September, marking the second consecutive month of inflation. It was the highest inflation since August 2024, led by food and alcoholic beverages, which rose 1.41%,...
For a tiny country, El Salvador looms large in recent U.S. history. A generation ago its civil war swallowed some 75,000 lives and billions of dollars in U.S. aid. More recently, President Donald Trump has made the Salvadoran street gang Mara Salvatrucha, or...
A soldier stationed in the Historic Center of San Salvador reportedly discharged his firearm accidentally, killing a woman on Thursday afternoon, the police reported after concluding initial interrogations and preliminary inquiries. The incident occurred at...
