Candidate and President Nayib Bukele’s government gives away food donated by China — Gobierno del candidato y presidente Nayib Bukele regala comida donada por China 

01/26/2024

The government of President Nayib Bukele is benefiting his presidential candidacy on his way to reelection. Ten days before the general elections, the Bukele administration uses inmates in a confidence phase and public employees to distribute food boxes, toilet paper,...

El Salvador: Homicides Decrease and So Does Investment — El Salvador: bajan los homicidios y también la inversión

01/26/2024

“Data kills narrative” is a phrase often used in politics to make it clear that, beyond speeches, what ultimately remains are the figures, those cold numbers that show whether what is said in front of microphones has any relation to the macroeconomic...

Communities reject the actions of Nuevas Ideas, which ignored the proposal to legalize their lands — Comunidades rechazan proceder de Nuevas Ideas, que ignoró propuesta para legalizarles terrenos

01/25/2024

Poor communities seeking to legalize the lands they live on reproached the position of the official party Nuevas Ideas for rejecting the proposals they have promoted for that purpose. The residents, grouped together in the Communities of Organized Faith in Action...

TSE records more than 120,634 votes cast via the Internet — TSE registra más de 120,634 votos emitidos por la vía de Internet

01/25/2024

Magistrate Noel Orellana of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) reported that more than 120,634 Salvadorans abroad cast their vote in the presidential election via the Internet, which has a 30-day deadline, counted from last January 6, to take place. Internet voting...

Consortium warns of lack of autonomy of the TSE and that there will be unequal elections — Consorcio advierte falta de autonomía del TSE y que habrá elecciones desiguales

01/24/2024

The Observa El Salvador Consortium presented this Tuesday its first 2024 electoral observation report “Analysis of the main challenges and risks of the 2024 elections”, where it warns of the vulnerability of the electoral process, such as the limited...

“I don’t agree with anything you propose”: Ernesto Castro to Claudia Ortiz — “No estoy de acuerdo con nada de lo que usted proponga”: Ernesto Castro a Claudia Ortiz

01/24/2024

The president of the Legislative Assembly, Ernesto Castro, cast his vote against the petition of Congresswoman Claudia Ortiz, from Vamos, to include a piece of correspondence with a proposal for reforming the Special Law for the Regularization of Lots and Parcels for...