The proposal for a new pension reform must be published by February 10, 2026 (reference date), according to documents related to the agreement between the Salvadoran government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The objective of this new reform is for the...
On February 25, 2025, Salvadoran authorities arrested Fidel Zavala, a spokesperson for the Unidad De Defensa De Derechos Humanos Y Comunitarios (UNIDEHC), without justification. During the raid, they also searched UNIDEHC’s office, the home of its director, lawyer...
With a 40-month, $1.4 billion International Monetary Fund’s Extended Fund Facility in place, the IMF restrictions on bitcoin purchases and the Bitcoin policy is now directly tied to El Salvador’s financial stability plan. In this context the IMF clarified that the...
In 2021, El Salvador caught the world’s attention by becoming the first country to make cryptocurrency legal tender, alongside the US dollar. Last December, as the price of bitcoin broke $100,000 (£77,765) for the first time, the young president Nayib Bukele...
Women’s human rights in El Salvador persist between resistance and the risk of their outright proscription. THE DELAYED AND GRADUAL RECOGNITION OF RIGHTS One of the premises of antidiscrimination law is to determine whether the population group under analysis has been...
Amnesty International, a global human rights advocacy organization, issued an urgent action on March 5, 2025, concerning the arrest of Fidel Zavala, spokesperson for Unidad de Defensa de Derechos Humanos y Comunitarios (UNIDEHC) (Human and Community Rights Defense...
