El Salvador ended 2024 with a record low of 114 homicides and recorded only one murder in December. In response, President Nayib Bukele declared that it is now the safest country in the Western Hemisphere. The Public Ministry reported that there were 114 homicides in...
According to Latinobarómetro 2024, 65% of Salvadorans believe that the country’s population does not truly express what they think when asked to voice their political opinion and that doing so has negative personal consequences. In response to another question,...
Catholic priest Juan Vicente Chopin stated that it is a “possibility” for the Conference of Bishops of El Salvador (Conferencia Episcopal de El Salvador, CEDES) to issue a decree with “canonical consequences” for the lawmakers who approved...
Héctor Aguirre, manager of the Mancomunidad Trinacional Fronteriza del Río Lempa (Trinational Border Community of the Lempa River), expressed his concern about the revival of mining in El Salvador, stating that it is not in line with the country’s reality. The...
Bukele’s government aims to engage in mining without revealing how or with whom it will do business, thereby attempting to bypass the constitutional requirement for a public concession process in the Legislative Assembly that allows private entities to...
The Government Ethics Tribunal (Tribunal de Ética Gubernamental, TEG) reported that as of November 2024, the number of disciplinary procedures initiated stood at 230. Out of these, 83 were filed through complaints, while 147 originated from notices. According to the...
