In recent years, El Salvador has emerged as a model state: a nation that has finally managed to slash the staggering violence rates that long relegated it to the bottom of Latin America’s brutality rankings. For ages, the country had drifted apart from the...
The Government of El Salvador awarded a total of $5.8 million to five companies for services encompassing the storage, management, and dispensing of medications under the telemedicine program, implemented through the Doctor SV application. According to adjudication...
The Ministry of Public Works (MOP) will manage the resettlement of 238 families whose homes and land will be impacted by the construction of the Apopa bypass, according to the Involuntary Resettlement Plan (PRI) drafted by the institution this July. The project...
Former police officers and civilians belonging to a home robbery ring were sentenced to up to 433 years in prison, the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) reported. This network faked search warrants to gain entry into homes and steal victims’ belongings....
The government has submitted a proposal to the Legislative Assembly to amend the 2025 Budget Law, adding $267 million to the Finance portfolio. So far this year, at least 40 amendments have been made to said law. On November 11, the Legislative Assembly authorized the...
At the close of 2022, the Government of El Salvador hailed the approval of a comprehensive overhaul of the pension system, portraying it as an act of social justice that would raise the minimum pension and ease the burden on retirees. The reform was enacted through...
