A proposed reform to the “Special Law on Statistics and Censuses” adds the Salvadoran Social Security Institute (ISSS) and the Lempa River Hydroelectric Executive Commission (CEL) to the institutions required to provide support for carrying out statistical and census...
Nayib Bukele’s government has escalated its attacks on the independent press in El Salvador. On Thursday, the digital newspaper El Faro, a benchmark for investigative journalism in the region, announced that authorities have frozen a bank account and a property...
The General Directorate of Penal Centers (DGCP) refused to provide information on individuals detained under the state of exception who have died in Salvadoran prisons, arguing that all data contained in the Penitentiary Information System (SIPE) “is under...
The inauguration of 70 remodeled schools last Sunday generated a wave of claims on social media and on the national broadcast that the evidence contradicts. Voz Pública verified ten of them — five from President Bukele’s speech, one from Nuevas Ideas party...
The reform to the Political Parties Law proposed by the Interior Minister, on presidential instructions, eliminates the ban still established by this legislation in Article 23, subsection a, on “promoting consecutive presidential reelection.” This is one...
Yesterday, May 7, lawmakers in the Legislative Assembly, where the ruling party holds a majority, ratified constitutional reforms to Articles 79 and 208 that seek to create an electoral district for Salvadorans abroad, as well as eliminate the provision that allowed...
