In December 2024, El Salvador and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reached a staff-level agreement for a $1.4 billion loan. The agreement, which outlines key policy commitments and structural reforms, remains subject to approval by the IMF Executive Board before...
El Salvador is experiencing a silent education crisis: according to data from teachers, organizations, and unions, by 2025 there will be fewer schools and fewer students. On February 19, the German Embassy announced the closure of the school in the El Bambú community,...
The Unidad de Defensa de Derechos Humanos y Comunitarios (Unidehc) (Human and Community Rights Defense Unit) denounced the arrest of its spokesperson, Fidel Zavala, who last year reported instances of torture in prisons. Unidehc maintains that Zavala’s detention is...
The Ministerio de Obras Públicas y de Transporte (MOPT) (Ministry of Public Works and Transportation) has imposed a seven-year classification on the wastewater treatment plant at the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) (Terrorism Confinement Center), as...
Prior to the IMF Board reviewing the agreement with the government of El Salvador this Wednesday—an arrangement that will require the government to halt buying Bitcoin—the Oficina Nacional de Bitcoin (ONB) (National Bitcoin Office) published several posts on the...
The shortage of medications is reaching critical levels at the Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social (ISSS) (Salvadoran Social Security Institute). Recent complaints from patients indicate that the institution does not have insulin in its warehouses, so they are...
