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...
Risk assessment agency Moody’s stated that the plan to refinance El Salvador’s domestic debt with local banks, which amounts to around $2.7 billion, is “negative” for financial institutions, according to a publication on their website viewed...
The Law for the Digital Modernization of the State could violate El Salvador’s Constitution. This was the view of economists and legislators after they delved deeper into questions about how the Government agreed to hire services from the tech giant and passed a...
