With 57 votes, the Legislative Assembly on Friday approved a budget reform to transfer $15 million in unused funds from the Ministry of Finance to the Presidency of the Republic. The Council of Ministers agreed to the budget reform on July 28, 2025, to...
The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, announced on Thursday night (08.15.2025) the appointment of an Armed Forces captain as Minister of Education—the first such appointment in the country in fifty years. Karla Trigueros, a physician who also advised the...
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has appointed an Armed Forces captain, Karla Trigueros, as the new Minister of Education, tasking her with spearheading a “profound transformation” of the Central American country’s education system....
Captain Karla Edith Trigueros, who until now served as a medical advisor to the Comando de Sanidad Militar (Military Health Command, COSAM), took office this Thursday, August 14, as the new Minister of Education. The military officer was sworn into office and...
Over 80,000 Salvadorans have been detained — some of whom human rights defenders maintain are innocent — since gang-busting President Nayib Bukele declared a state of emergency three years ago that allowed arrests without warrants. The government accuses...
Attorney General Rodolfo Delgado requested an amendment to Article 17 of the proposed reform to the Anti-Organized Crime Law, allowing the investigation period and the filing of charges against individuals detained under the state of exception to be extended by up to...
