Summary: The government justified the confidentiality declaration for trade secret reasons. In December, the official party and its allies in Congress swiftly approved a new metallic mining law in the country. Civil organizations and the Catholic Church are promoting...
In December 2022, El Salvador approved a pension system reform that failed to address any of the issues a change of this nature should tackle: increasing the number of contributors (and thus, the resources of the pension fund), expanding the coverage of beneficiaries...
The Ministry of Health contracted the company CAABSA S.A. de C.V. in October 2021 for the project titled “Reubicación, adecuación y traslado del Laboratorio Nacional de Salud Pública de El Salvador” (“Relocation, Renovation, and Transfer of the National Public Health...
The president of the Banco Central de Reserva (BCR) (Central Reserve Bank), Douglas Rodríguez, has seen his salary double since 2021, just months after taking office, according to the Transparency portal. According to the data, Rodríguez joined the BCR in September...
Various parishes across the country began collecting signatures this weekend to oppose the new General Law on Metal Mining in El Salvador. Parishioners of the Nuestra Señora de Lourdes parish in Colón, La Libertad, started this initiative early on Saturday...
El Salvador underwent the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United Nations Human Rights Council this Monday, which assesses the human rights situation in the country. In this process, all 193 member countries issue recommendations regarding the matter. Among the...
