El Salvador’s trade balance deficit registered a 7.9% increase in the first quarter of 2026, reaching $2,769.8 million, according to figures from the Central Reserve Bank (BCR). The increase represents $203.2 million more compared to the same period the previous...
By Matt Bernardini After a global scandal over its use of the notorious Pegasus spyware to target journalists and activists, the Presidential office of Nayib Bukele’s El Salvador secretly sought to acquire alternative spyware through a shadowy international deal...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was captured in 1943, the same year Hitler marked his first decade in power. Around that anniversary, he had circulated among his friends a treatise titled “After Ten Years.” It was a retrospective look at what had happened to Germany, the church,...
The Movement for the Defense of Land and Natural Resources of Tecoluca recently denounced water contamination attributed to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT). According to the organization, the facility is allegedly affecting the streams in the area surrounding...
The Fourth Sentencing Court of San Salvador set a date to begin the trial against former President Alfredo Cristiani, former lawmaker Rodolfo Parker, and nine military officers accused of the massacre of six Jesuit priests and two women at the Universidad...
Faculty and researchers at the University of El Salvador (UES) raised alarms about potential privatization processes in key sectors such as education, health care, and water resources, stemming from the proposed Public-Private Partnerships Law currently under...
