On January 9, 2025, Minister of Environment and Natural Resources Fernando López signed resolution MARN-N FA965-2022-R-10-2025, granting the Instituto Nacional de los Deportes de El Salvador (National Sports Institute of El Salvador, INDES) the environmental permit...
The Legislative Assembly approved a special provision to advance the payment of the Christmas pension and the additional support payment issued in December. This measure supplements reforms approved last week to the Código de Trabajo (Labor Code) and the Ley sobre la...
Guatemalan lawmaker Karla Gutiérrez, who was sworn in on Tuesday as the new president of the Parlamento Centroamericano (Central American Parliament, PARLACEN), affirmed that the body respects the sovereign decision made by El Salvador to cease nominating lawmakers...
Lawmaker Claudia Ortiz (Vamos) introduced a bill on Wednesday to guarantee an economic subsidy for people who dedicate themselves to caring for others in vulnerable situations and who, for that reason, cannot engage in paid employment. Ortiz first made the proposal...
Prisons across Latin America were already bursting at the seams when the “Bukele security model,” characterized by a state of exception that has led to unprecedented numbers of detentions and mass incarceration, began to be embraced by other politicians who have...
On the day Nadia Lissette Portal secured a position as an administrative technician at the Registro Nacional de las Personas Naturales (RNPN), she set aside her training as a general physician and embarked on a career in El Salvador’s foreign service in the...
