Trump Grants Bukele Carte Blanche Nayib Bukele’s concentration of power in El Salvador is a familiar story by now. Since taking office in 2019, the Salvadoran president has suspended due process rights in the name of fighting crime, carrying out mass arrests of people...
In Perspective. The ruling-party-dominated Legislative Assembly approved, with 57 out of 60 votes, a highly contentious constitutional reform that extends the presidential term—from five to six years—eliminates runoff elections, and, most critically, enables...
For four months, no kidney transplants have been performed at the Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social (Salvadoran Social Security Institute) (ISSS), Dr. Rafael Aguirre, secretary general of the Sindicato de Médicos Trabajadores del Seguro Social (Social Security...
“We are running short on medical staff,” warned Dr. Rafael Aguirre, secretary general of the Sindicato de Médicos Trabajadores del Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social (Union of Physicians Employed by the Salvadoran Social Security Institute, SIMETRISSS), on Julio...
On August 5, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) presented its Economic Survey, highlighting low growth for El Salvador. The organization has once again reduced its estimates. According to the new data, El Salvador will grow by 2.4%...
“The second plea is that the honorable lawmakers reconsider the constitutional reforms, recently approved by the full legislative body without consultation. For a constitutional reform to be legitimate, the people must be consulted,” he stated during the...
