El Salvador imported more than $1,630.1 million in food during the first half of 2026, a basket composed mostly of edible preparations, cereals, meat, and dairy, according to statistics from the Central Reserve Bank (BCR). According to the BCR, this figure represented...
Nearly 100 transnational, national, state, and local organizations, along with more than 170 religious leaders, asked U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Friday to extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for El Salvador. The...
The ruling party’s loss of control in recent days is striking. A minister claimed that a journalist offered a gang leader asylum in Mexico in exchange for information about negotiations with the government (such protection falls to states, not to private...
In January, Chile’s then president-elect, José Antonio Kast, landed by helicopter at the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot) in El Salvador. Before touring the mega-prison’s cellblocks, he said his country needed to “import good ideas and proposals...
Labor Minister Rolando Castro has proposed a “modernization of working time,” an initiative that, according to the official, seeks to benefit both employees and employers. Castro assured that no work hours would be cut and no acquired labor rights would be...
El Salvador remains one of the countries in the region with the highest informality rates, according to the Economic Survey presented this Thursday by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The report, which covers the economic outlook...
