“We anticipate that the solidarity fund of the defined-contribution pension system will exhaust its reserves within our forecast horizon,” states the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P Global) in its latest report on El Salvador, which updated the...
Authoritarianism is advancing at breakneck speed in the country, and, predictably, as it has escalated, fear among the population has grown. For many people, that is the price to pay for security, a vital good denied to them for decades. They know rights are being...
The renowned organization Cristosal warned that the State of El Salvador is turning pretrial detention into “anticipatory punishment.” This follows the Legislative Assembly—dominated by the ruling Nuevas Ideas (NI) party—amending a law to extend by an...
The Medical Association and opposition lawmakers criticized the provision in the new Law Creating the National Health Network regarding the mandatory requirement for private and public institutions to respond to government requests for support, without any details on...
Mario arrived in the United States in 2021 to escape violence in El Salvador. An attack, preceded by weeks of threats, convinced him that his country had closed its doors to him. Gang members from a community in Sonsonate, where he had lived for decades, wounded his...
Robert García, the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, sent a letter on Monday to the Department of Justice, the Department of State, and the Department of Homeland Security in which he demanded an explanation from the Trump...
