US supports fight against crime but opposes “prolonged” states of exception — EE.UU. apoya lucha contra el crimen pero se opone a estados de excepción “por mucho tiempo”

06/26/2024

Brian Nichols, the US State Department’s official for Latin America, considers the fight against transnational crime in the Americas to be “key” but called for not resorting to states of exception “for too long.” “The fight against...

Presidential House Official is Member of Constructora El Salvador Board of Directors — Funcionario de Casa Presidencial es miembro de junta directiva de Constructora El Salvador

06/26/2024

Constructora El Salvador, a mixed-economy company with both private and public capital, received an international anti-bribery management system certification today. Fernando Avilés represented the company and was identified on the institution’s X (formerly...

Government withdraws targeted propane gas subsidy without informing recipients — Gobierno retira subsidio del gas propano focalizado sin informar a los afectados

06/25/2024

For Francisca, every penny counts. She is 65 years old and her household relies on the income from her youngest son’s job, who still lives with her despite being over 30 years old. She cannot work anymore due to her health conditions, especially diabetes, which...

“My father is being tortured,” claims son of José Atilio Montalvo — “Mi padre está siendo torturado”, afirma hijo de José Atilio Montalvo

06/25/2024

Atilio Montalvo’s son denounced on social networks that his father, of the same name, a 74-year-old economist and signer of the Peace Agreements, is being “tortured” while in detention, accused of crimes of terrorism and rebellion against the State....

What Patricia Bullrich didn’t see in El Salvador: prisoners without evidence, torture, and over 300 deaths in prisons hidden by Bukele — Lo que no vio Patricia Bullrich en El Salvador: presos sin pruebas, torturas y más de 300 muertos en cárceles que oculta Bukele

06/24/2024

The Salvadoran government reserved a VIP treatment for Patricia Bullrich, Javier Milei’s Minister of Security, as it usually does for officials and international journalists who come to the Central American country interested in learning about “the Bukele...

348,000 Salvadorans Intercepted at U.S. Southern Border Under Bukele’s Administration — En gestión Bukele interceptaron a 348,000 salvadoreños en frontera sur de Estados Unidos

06/24/2024

During the five years of former President Nayib Bukele’s administration, the number of Salvadorans intercepted at the southern border of the United States reached 348,472, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which is part of the Department...