Overseas Voting Begins Without Clear Regulations, According to WOLA — Arranca voto en el exterior sin regulaciones claras, según WOLA

01/06/2024

Just hours before the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) launches the system for voting from abroad via remote Internet voting, the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) voiced its concern this Friday over the lack of transparency in the process. “On January...

Votante Calls on TSE to Publish Reports on Technical Tests and Audits of Electronic Voting — Votante pide al TSE publicar informes de pruebas técnicas y auditorías del voto electrónico

01/06/2024

With the start of overseas voting via the Internet on January 6, 2024, the citizen initiative Votante is asking the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) to provide information and materials so that citizens, academia, social organizations, computer experts, and political...

School Suppliers in El Salvador Begin 2024 Without Payment — Proveedores escolares en El Salvador inician 2024 en impago

01/06/2024

School suppliers from the Ministry of Education (MINED) stated yesterday that they are starting 2024 without having received payment for the last batch delivered in 2023 to educational centers. “We are still owed,” said a school shoe supplier, who agreed...

Bukele lashes out against the IACHR, the UN, and the international community — Bukele arremete contra la CIDH, la ONU y comunidad internacional

01/05/2024

During the conversation or “live session” titled “Let’s talk about what the media doesn’t discuss,” held on Wednesday night on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), President Nayib Bukele defended the changes promoted by...

Companies owned by friends of the Nuevas Ideas faction leader received $6.9 million from the State — Empresas de los amigos del jefe de fracción de Nuevas Ideas recibieron $6.9 millones del Estado

01/04/2024

Between June 2019 and June 2023, at least 39 state institutions awarded over $6.9 million in public funds to seven companies owned by entrepreneurs whom Christian Guevara, the faction leader of Nayib Bukele’s party in the Legislative Assembly, refers to as...

Foreign Investment during Bukele’s term plummeted to only 44% of Sánchez Cerén’s — Inversión Extranjera en periodo de Bukele se desplomó a sólo un 44 % de la de Sánchez Cerén

01/04/2024

Although in El Salvador, official figures related to crime have plummeted during the administration of the now president on leave, Nayib Bukele, compared to his predecessor, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, it would be expected that many more investors would look favorably on...