Salvadorans paid 31.4% more for imports of oil and its derivatives in the first eight months of the year, after the oil bill exceeded $2.058 billion, according to statistics from the Central Reserve Bank (BCR). Petroleum product prices have been affected this year by...
ARENA lawmaker Marcela Villatoro emphasized that the 2027 General State Budget must be presented “complete, funded, and without lies,” as the lawmaker recalled that previous budgets have been modified throughout the fiscal year to allocate resources to...
Public passenger transport operators requested government authorization in May for a $0.17 fare increase as part of a set of proposals prompted by rising fuel prices, which they said have driven them into a financial crisis due to a lack of liquidity. LA PRENSA...
The head of the Vice Ministry of Transportation (VMT), Nelson Reyes, said Thursday, September 24, that for now the Salvadoran Government is ruling out a fare increase for public passenger transit if there are no conditions for improved service. In Canal 21’s...
The leadership of the opposition party Vamos, led by alternate lawmaker Cesia Rivas as secretary general, concluded its term on Friday, September 25, with no word from the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) as of Friday. Asked whether the political party would be facing...
The internal conflict in Vamos has deepened in recent weeks, resulting in an increasingly public clash between lawmaker Claudia Ortiz and the party’s secretary general, Cesia Rivas. Behind it all are two diverging visions of the direction the party should take...
