“Last year, fiscal shortcomings were aggravated by an opaque pension system financing agreement, which was recently reorganized. Although financial transparency is limited, we suspect that the pension system is financing the government through loan plans via the...
Investment bank Barclays published a report indicating that alternatives for obtaining external financing are becoming increasingly scarce for El Salvador, so an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) would be a lifeline for the country and unlock...
The Nuevas Ideas party faced a significant loss in its vote share for these Municipal Council elections, obtaining less than half a million votes nationwide, while in the presidential elections it obtained more than 2.7 million votes in its favor. Although its...
Weeks after the presidential elections in which the current Salvadoran president was re-elected for a second term, the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, stressed the need to “defend the rule of law, ensure the separation of powers,...
In the March 3rd municipal election, Nuevas Ideas did not sweep at the polls and, contrary to the presidential and legislative elections, had strong disputes in almost half of the municipalities, according to preliminary data from the TSE at midnight. In 20 of the 44...
The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, 42, has attacked gender theory and has decided that it shouldn’t be included in the public education system of the Central American country. Bukele has said that he won’t allow “[gender] ideologies in schools and colleges,”...
