Steffany Ayala, wife of Eugenio Chicas, former magistrate of the Tribunal Supremo Electoral (TSE) (Supreme Electoral Tribunal), called the case against the former official for illicit enrichment a “political persecution” and “injustice,” after...
Doctors from the Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social (ISSS) (Salvadoran Social Security Institute) are reportedly considering restricting chemotherapy treatment for cancer patients due to the lack of Filgrastim, a medication used to boost patients’ immune...
One month after Nayib Bukele ratified the law that reactivated metallic mining in El Salvador, the Fiscalía General de la República (FGR) (Attorney General’s Office), aligned with the government, requested that the five environmentalists from Santa Marta—whose...
After three and a half years of negotiations, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) authorized a $1.4 billion loan for El Salvador, a country without separation of powers that has made a practice of classifying much of the previously accessible public information as...
Trump 2.0 began, as promised, with an onslaught of dictatorial executive orders—initiating massive deportation sweeps, revoking temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants, threatening to rescind birthright citizenship and withdrawing federal...
In the department of La Unión, the owners of some businesses and market stalls are starting to notice their sales decline. Those who know their clientele well point out that the customers who rely on remittances are the ones no longer showing up. Their suspicions are...
