Over the past three weeks, at the Regional Newsroom, we have published two investigations that revealed how the Bukele family went from being a wealthy family with 29 hectares of land to becoming the new landowners of El Salvador. Between 2019 and 2024, they amassed...
Human rights and women’s protection organizations warn that violence against women remains prevalent in Salvadoran society and highlight that despite security rhetoric, the numbers of femicide continue to rise. On Friday, October 11, the National Civil Police...
“Imbeciles” This is what the popular Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele called independent journalists in El Salvador after two journalistic investigations revealed how he and five other family members, his three brothers, his wife, and his mother, acquired...
The rating agency, Standard and Poor’s (S&P) Global Ratings, considers the bond buyback announced by the government last week as “opportunistic,” asserting that it could have fulfilled its financial commitments without the need for this...
Summary The president claimed that the Prosecutor’s Office is independent of the Executive, yet the current prosecutor was appointed irregularly by the ruling party. Bukele mentioned there is no unemployment in the construction, tourism, and agriculture sectors;...
According to a university survey released this Thursday, 92% of Salvadorans say they do not use bitcoin for transactions, despite it being legal tender in their country since 2021 and the government’s substantial investment in promoting its adoption. The First...
