It’s Sunday, June 7, and it’s almost 10 in the morning. I’m in some plaza in a city in southern Spain. I order a manchado, as they usually call coffee with milk here, at the bar across the way. While I wait at a table for my order, there’s a...
Violence is usually imagined as an explosion: the gunshot of a war, a physical assault, or the toll of a bloody crime. Central American history, however, shows that its deepest and most enduring mechanisms operate far more quietly. At the closing session of the 17th...
On Tuesday, the Medical Association of El Salvador (Colmedes) called the Ministry of Labor’s announcement on severance payments for workers fired from the Hospital Nacional Rosales a step forward, though it called for the process to be extended to all dismissed...
Representatives of the Union for the Defense of Workers of the Salvadoran Social Security Institute (SIDETISSS) informed LA PRENSA GRÁFICA yesterday that they will request a dialogue table with the President of the Republic, Nayib Bukele, and the head of the Ministry...
The record of ARENA presidential candidate Mayteé Iraheta is tarnished by two violations committed between 2017 and 2018, according to the records of the Government Ethics Tribunal (TEG) and the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), the entities that issued the sanctions...
The presidential pre-candidacy of physician and union leader Rafael Aguirre has drawn questions from both the ruling party and sectors of the opposition. His critics point out that his participation under the FMLN banner helps legitimize an election they consider...
