The Bukele model is as alluring as it is inimitable. Autocrats admire it and envy it. They yearn to replicate it in their own countries. Yet imitation proves far more arduous than it appears. It demands more than mere political will: the dismantling of democratic...
The Legislative Assembly will increase its 2026 communications budget compared to the amount assigned for that purpose in 2025, according to the final version of the General National Budget for the current year, released this Monday by the Ministerio de Hacienda...
El Salvador endures its most intense period of police oversight in decades, yet burdens an entire generation raised amid patrols, prisons, and security pledges—bereft of the employment or education necessary to envision a different future. Under the state of...
El Salvador’s Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman (PDDH), under the direction of Raquel Caballero de Guevara, has turned its back on individuals, collectives, and diverse sectors of the population seeking protection amid grave human rights violations stemming...
The Judicial Branch will eliminate 1,045 positions throughout the institution as a result of the budget cut approved by Nuevas Ideas and allied parties, following a constitutional reform that abolished the minimum budget allocation the Branch was historically mandated...
The Economic Development Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) released its Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2025. The report places El Salvador at 2.6% growth in 2024, projects 3.5% by...
