In summary: With Bukele’s government, total poverty in Salvadoran households increased from 22.8% to 27.2%. Between 2019 and 2023, extreme poverty in El Salvador increased significantly, from 4.5% to 8.8%, with an increase in rural areas from 5.2% to 11%. Under...
“I once noticed that because a person – in jail – approached a guard more than a meter, – the guard – pushed him and started hitting him on the ground with a club. Literally, he was torturing him.” “I also saw when – the...
The Human Rights Ombudsman’s Office (PDDH) revealed few findings following its visit to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) carried out in August 2023 alongside the Presidential Commission on Human Rights and Freedom of Expression. PDDH Ombudswoman...
The Nuevas Ideas faction of the Legislative Assembly would have about 450 employees hired in the institution, according to database leaks by the CiberinteligenciaSV group. Some of the hired people work as makeup artists, one person is a cook, others have a technical...
Environmentalists from organizations in El Salvador, united under the Mesa Nacional Frente a la Minería (National Roundtable Against Mining), expressed their concern this Wednesday about the “possibility” of the return of “metal mining...
Food prices in El Salvador increased much faster than in the rest of the dollarized economies on the continent over the past two years, according to a review of official data from our country, the United States, Ecuador, and Panama. Between June 2022 and the...
