More than half of Salvadorans who have emigrated to other countries have done so to find work. Of these migrants, 56.3% are men and the rest are women, according to data from the Seventh Population and Sixth Housing Census El Salvador 2024 by the BCR. On Thursday, the...
The retrial of the five environmental leaders from Santa Marta will start on February 3, and Mary Lawlor, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders, noted that the process has taken on greater importance after the Salvadoran government repealed the law that...
Stephen Miller, one of Donald Trump’s closest advisers, said that the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has offered “tremendous levels of cooperation” to the United States on several migration issues. White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller...
The ruling party, which won nearly all seats in last year’s elections except for three held by the opposition, ratified a constitutional amendment that had already been approved by the previous legislature, which also had a Bukele majority. Until now, the Constitution...
After lawmakers from Nuevas Ideas in the Asamblea Legislativa (Legislative Assembly) ratified the reform to Article 248 of the Constitution of the Republic, constitutional lawyers state that this move did not follow the proper procedure and, for that reason, El...
The reform, which was approved by the 2021–2024 Legislature, allows the same legislature to both approve and ratify amendments to the Constitution. Initially, constitutional amendments required a vote by two different legislatures. This amendment was ratified with 57...
