Bitcoin has been the official currency of the country for two years now. However, its usage has been minimal, which has prevented major risks from materializing, such as a financial imbalance, said economist José Luis Magaña in an interview on YSUCA radio. On the...
Public schools have only received 33% of this year’s operational budget, due to financial issues faced by the Ministry of Education, reported Idalia Zúniga, secretary of the Salvadoran Teaching Front, during a YSUCA interview this Wednesday. This situation has...
In 2023, after over a year of the state of exception, the Minister of Justice and Public Security of El Salvador accepted that one out of every ten arrested individuals would be released after being found innocent. DW spoke with two of them – a man and a woman...
The implementation of Bitcoin has cost El Salvador approximately $329 million. After two years of adoption, it has presented a series of irregularities, such as low usage by the population and significant losses to the public treasury. This was established in the...
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, insisted today that the duration of the state of emergency in El Salvador is excessive and expressed alarm over the “mass arrests” this has allowed. In his opening speech for the 54th session of the...
On September 9th, the President of the Legislative Assembly, Ernesto Castro, and 15 other Nuevas Ideas party legislators met with the Salvadoran diaspora residing in the United States. According to lawyer Ruth López, Head of Anti-Corruption and Justice at...
