Belgium, Spain, the United States, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Liechtenstein are the seven members of the United Nations (UN) that have submitted questions to the Salvadoran state about the state of exception and the...
In 2024, El Salvador recorded the year with the lowest use of Bitcoin as a payment method among the population, with only 8.1% using it, since its adoption as legal tender in 2021, according to a survey released this Thursday. The survey by the Instituto Universitario...
On January 16, 2025, former councilor for the San Salvador City Hall, Héctor Silva, reported on his X account that police visited his grandmother’s house to demand that she appear before the Fiscalía General de la República (FGR) (Attorney General’s...
The annual survey by the Instituto Universitario de Opinión Pública (IUDOP) of the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA) reveals that the high cost of living and indebtedness are the main economic challenges faced by Salvadoran households in 2024....
Two individuals connected to the former GANA lawmaker and Legislative Assembly president, Guillermo Gallegos, were deemed responsible for fund mismanagement in the Soyapango municipality during the 2021 and 2022 administration of the Nuevas Ideas party. This...
The “punitive populism” practiced by the government of Nayib Bukele in El Salvador—where in two and a half years, 83,000 people have been detained and 300 have died in prison, “without any internal investigation process”—is highlighted in the 2024 annual global human...
