The awarded contract totals nearly $3.9 million and stipulates a one-year timeline for project execution. The ministry invoked Decree 849, intended for tourism-related initiatives under purported urgency, to bypass requirements such as competition and public...
Between June 2022 and May 2025, the Ministry of Security executed purchases totaling $186.2 million without adhering to the processes outlined in public procurement laws. Instead, it relied on a separate mechanism labeled merely as “other,” which corresponds to...
Salvadoran lawyer and activist David Morales testified this Friday before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) that at least a dozen attorneys have left El Salvador this year out of fear of arbitrary detention, amid a backdrop of escalating...
Current Prevalence and Driving Factors On August 16, 2017, El Salvador’s Family Code underwent a reformation. The updated Family Code set the legal age of marriage to 18 for women and men, opposed to its previous ruling, which stated that girls could marry regardless...
Martyrs Remembered, a Champion of Justice, Missed Just before dawn on November 16, 1989, soldiers from an elite Salvadoran Army unit walked onto the campus of the Universidad Centroamericana “José Simeón Cañas,” better known as UCA. By the time they left, the...
Fitch Ratings has affirmed El Salvador’s Long-Term debt ratings at ‘B-‘ and assigned a Recovery Rating of ‘RR4’, following the removal of the ratings from Under Criteria Observation (UCO). The rating actions reflect the application of...
