The lifeless body of a man was found Sunday morning in the Acahuapa River, in the San Vicente Sur district. According to rescue workers, the person was identified as Alejandro José Reyes, though no further details were provided about his background. Local residents...
Under the Roman Empire, censuses were an instrument of taxation and imperial control: to register meant being enrolled to pay tribute to Rome. It was not merely an administrative headcount, but involved acknowledging political and tributary subjection to Rome. In 6...
The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of El Salvador (CSJ) responded to two challenges alleging unconstitutionality in state of exception proceedings, stating that it sees no problem with retroactively applying extended pretrial detention to those...
Among the requirements for competing for a municipal council candidacy in the Nuevas Ideas internal elections is the signing of a commitment letter in which aspirants accept that, if elected, they may be subjected to audits and even removed from office by party...
The number of people who have died in El Salvador’s prisons after being detained under the state of exception, in effect since March 2022, has risen to at least 537, the nongovernmental organization Legal Humanitarian Aid (SJH) reported Wednesday. “The...
The World Bank updated its economic growth projections for Latin America and the Caribbean. For El Salvador, it raised the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth forecast from 3.0% to 3.2% for 2026, according to the latest edition of its “Latin America and the...
