Workers from the Health and Education sectors, as well as members of various civil society organizations, participated on Saturday in the second “White March” as an act of opposition to the measures implemented by President Nayib Bukele’s administration,...
Ed note: El Salvador’s Oriente Salvaje, consisting of well-known waves Las Flores and Punta Mango, recently became the 12th World Surfing Reserve (or at least it will once it’s ratified by the Salvadoran government). Meanwhile, some 200 kms to the west, the even...
The American Association of Jurists (AAJ) condemned the “arbitrary” arrest of economist and member of the Peace Accords negotiating commission, José Atilio Montalvo, who was detained on May 31 at his residence. “Gathered in its virtual Branch...
One afternoon in May 2024, a first-cycle teacher at a public school in the southern department of Cuscatlán decided the class would be held outdoors. The Loma Abajo Hamlet School, with 44 enrolled students, is made of tin and wood, and with the intense sun that day,...
El Salvador has a high chance of striking a staff-level agreement with the International Monetary Fund next month for about $1.4 billion, people familiar with the negotiations said. President Nayib Bukele is seeking to finalize terms for the three-year program after...
A glimmer of hope has emerged in El Salvador to establish responsibility for the killing of six Jesuit priests and two women in 1989 in the gardens of the Central American University (UCA). A judge in San Salvador has ordered 11 individuals accused of being the...
