Infectious disease specialist Dr. Jorge Panameño lamented that the Ministerio de Salud (Ministry of Health) has not yet provided public information about what is known as hand, foot, and mouth disease, despite the number of reported cases rising, particularly in the...
Wendy Monterrosa and her colleagues founded news site Voz Pública in El Salvador in 2020. A year into Nayib Bukele’s presidency, marked by frequent attacks on journalists, Voz Pública built a small newsroom focused on fact-checking and investigative journalism. But...
When Nayib Bukele launched his presidential campaign in the eastern department of La Unión in 2018, the new outsider politician stood in a street packed with supporters and promised a new airport. La Unión and the rest of El Salvador’s eastern region have historically...
When public power stops being democratic, sultans and tyrants emerge, along with the cult of personality: the veneration for an individual, a family, or a group imposed upon the rest of the community. This is the fetish of hegemony—the mental, ideological, and...
In January 2025 alone, the Chivo Pets veterinary hospital spent an amount equal to what it should have used across two and a half months. This expenditure makes its spending greater than the budgets of 26 out of the 32 national hospitals that make up the public health...
In a sudden turnaround, Nayib Bukele has walked back his decision, announced less than 24 hours earlier, to shut down Chivo Pets, an animal hospital reportedly financed with Bitcoin profits. This Sunday, Bukele stated on social media that Chivo Pets will continue...
