On Monday, November 24, the Fiscalía General de la República (Attorney General’s Office, FGR) filed charges against Fuerza Armada de El Salvador (Armed Forces of El Salvador, FAES) member Derman Fernando Jorge Benítez, who shot and killed Yessica Solís in the...
I like to take care of things,” said 49-year-old Miriam Gómez, stooping to the floor and delicately coaxing a kitten into her cupped hands. Its orange fur burned in a shaft of light as she raised it to the sky. “I like to take care of people too.” It is an instinct...
While the Salvadoran government boasts record security achievements and celebrates “more than a thousand days without homicides,” murders and disappearances persist in the country, remaining excluded from official figures. Relatives, social organizations,...
The Asociación Latinoamericana de Medicina Social (Latin American Association of Social Medicine, ALAMES) asserts that the telemedicine model utilizing the “Doctor SV” application, recently launched by the government, is an exclusionary framework that shifts...
The Legislative Assembly received a proposed reform to the Municipal Code that alters the rules governing the formation and operation of communal organizations, including Community Development Associations (ADESCOs). The Executive Branch proposes shifting the...
Urban bus operators and mototaxi association representatives in the city of Ahuachapán declare that they are grappling with a financial crisis triggered by illegal and unfair competition from compact cars, also known as microcars. According to these entrepreneurs,...
