The San Sebastián River no longer has fish. The contaminated water it receives from an old gold mine killed them all. Now that mining has once again become legal in El Salvador, the fear is that this phenomenon will be reproduced in other parts of the country. The ban...
The IMF team that analyzed the agreement with El Salvador concluded, according to its projections, that the Cuenta de Garantía Solidaria (CGS) (Solidarity Guarantee Account) will be exhausted around 2027 as a result of the pension reform that has been in effect since...
Between July and December 2024, the government took from the Pension Fund an amount equivalent to 54% of the contributions paid by all workers during that same period. This marks a drop of 30 percentage points from what was recorded in the first half of the year...
Progress on the construction of the Northern Zone Hospital, located in the district of Nejapa, western San Salvador, is now clearly noticeable. El Diario de Hoy visited the hospital’s construction site, one of President Nayib Bukele’s pledged projects...
After dissipating in recent years, pro-mining pressure in Central America has mushroomed, drawing complaints from rural communities and green advocates that a surge of extractive projects will harm natural resources and human health. Various governments across the...
Marching towards what he calls the New El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele has revolutionized many aspects of the country’s reality. His exploits are well-known: the introduction of Bitcoin as legal tender in 2021 that most recently courted Tether to set up shop in...
