When public power stops being democratic, sultans and tyrants emerge, along with the cult of personality: the veneration for an individual, a family, or a group imposed upon the rest of the community. This is the fetish of hegemony—the mental, ideological, and...
In January 2025 alone, the Chivo Pets veterinary hospital spent an amount equal to what it should have used across two and a half months. This expenditure makes its spending greater than the budgets of 26 out of the 32 national hospitals that make up the public health...
According to the “Non-Financial Public Sector Debt Profile” reports that the Ministry of Finance posts on the Transparencia Fiscal website, El Salvador’s public debt in 2024 amounted to 87.5% of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP)—nearly three percentage points...
At least one thousand families living in the Majucla residential development, Villa Mariona, in the Cuscatancingo district, have been without potable water for a month. This situation has created difficulties that affect their finances and put their health at risk. In...
February 26 was the last day that GatoEncerrado, an investigative journalism magazine, had a newsroom. It was one of the 11 Salvadoran media outlets affected by the freezing of U.S. cooperation funds. Days earlier, the publication’s modest 70-square-meter office in a...
On Monday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed the U.S. will eliminate 83% of the foreign aid projects carried out by USAID — the U.S. Agency for International Development — and cancel almost $60 billion in foreign assistance. The Trump Administration has already...
