01/22/2024
The Government of El Salvador will have a problem finding financing for commitments of more than $686.5 million, corresponding to the gap (amount that does not have secured resources) of the general budget of the Nation for 2024 and the bonds that mature in January...
01/22/2024
“El Salvador’s Bitcoin investments are in the black!”, wrote an enthusiastic Nayib Bukele on his X account on the morning of December 4, 2023. After dozens of articles criticizing his investment, which was obviously generating losses, the now...
01/20/2024
On Sunday, January 7, in the afternoon, one day after the start of the first electronic voting for the Salvadoran diaspora, a group of Salvadorans shared a private streaming transmission with me. The link came without a description, but what I witnessed was a live...
01/20/2024
“We always skip a meal,” says Cecilia Ábrego bluntly, describing the sacrifices her family has made because of the rising costs of basic staples. She’s not alone. In El Salvador, nearly half of the population suffers moderate to severe food insecurity, meaning they do...
01/19/2024
The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) -with over 13,000 members worldwide- condemns the issuance of a provisional arrest order by the San Francisco Gotera Investigative Court on December 22, 2023 against the Salvadoran scholar and politician Dr. Rubén Ignacio...
01/18/2024
On January 14, the new president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, from the Semilla Movement, took office with the expectation of fostering a new “democratic spring” in the Central American neighboring country, which has always been dominated by...
