The pact that Nayib Bukele, the popular Salvadoran president, made with gang leaders before taking office for the first time in 2019 has come to light again in the Long Island, New York court, where the first hearing in the trial against the MS13 gang has been held....
El Salvador went to international markets to issue debt on April 11, seeking $1,000 million and managed to obtain $908 million at an “implicit rate of 12%” for six years and with principal payments every two years. This issuance also involved a coupon...
In its most recent report on El Salvador, titled “Kicking the Can, but up a Steeper Hill,” the investment bank Barclays has concluded that while the repurchase of some of its bonds has provided relief for 2025 and 2026, the Government of El Salvador will...
Neftaly Rivera Navarro, the U.S.-Salvadoran citizen who disappeared on March 13 and was found dead on the 16th of the same month, was buried on Wednesday in a cemetery in San Salvador, more than a month after his body was found in a rural area of Cinquera...
Due to the impact of the El Niño phenomenon and the extreme weather events that occurred in 2023, more than half a million Salvadorans living in the Dry Corridor will need food aid in the next four months, reveals a study conducted by Oxfam and nine other regional...
64.6% of the population of El Salvador rejects arrests without a judicial order, a key tool in the “war” against gangs launched by President Nayib Bukele, according to a survey released on Monday (04.15.2024). Despite the majority rejection of these...
