They warn that millions of people will be affected in particular by the dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), responsible for countless health and emergency programs. In 2023, USAID disbursed about $1.7 billion in Latin America and the...
It has become an annual staple. Transparency International, the first and largest global organization dedicated to fighting corruption, uses its Corruption Perceptions Index to show the impact of this scourge in the public sector of 180 countries and territories, on a...
Back in 2021, El Salvador became the first country in the world to require its citizens to use bitcoin for payments. Last month, four years later, it notched another record: it became the first country to rescind bitcoin’s status as required tender. This...
Arena, the weakened right-wing opposition party that still survives with only two lawmakers in the Legislative Assembly and one mayor’s office throughout El Salvador, is facing a new internal struggle that jeopardizes—heading into the next elections—whatever crumbs of...
El Salvador’s Foreign Minister Alexandra Hill Tinoco said a civil nuclear cooperation agreement with the U.S. would help power the central American country “at competitive pricing without depending on geopolitics or on oil prices.” “The...
The deepening of the economic crisis in El Salvador is causing a rapid deterioration of a model that is losing its effectiveness in controlling growing popular discontent. Meanwhile, the regime is extending its servility and dependence on “its friends in Washington”...
