We know it’s difficult to find reliable news. USESSC has a collection for you if you want to catch up with what’s happening in El Salvador and with U.S. foreign policy: ‘It’s a war on the people’: El Salvador’s mass arrests send thousands into despair (The Guardian) Tom Phillips, on the State of Exception […]
On Thursday April 28th, during a press conference, the Minister of Labor said that May 1st marchers will be relatives, collaborators or financiers of criminal groups or gangs of El Salvador.
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) El Salvador: A state of emergency indeed With a new state of emergency, any residual hint of civil liberties has been suspended in ‘the world’s coolest dictatorship’. Belen Fernandez Contributing editor at Jacobin Magazine. Published On 6 Apr 20226 Apr 2022 Read post on Al Jazeera News Here On Saturday, March 26, […]
(PUBLICADO ORIGINALMENTE POR LA PRENSA GRÁFICA) Military personnel drive units of routes 42 and 152 confiscated from Catalino Miranda, and the Government announces the hiring of drivers. On Saturday, the Government announced the capture of transport businessman Catalino Miranda and removal of permits to drive 42 and 152 routes managed by his company ACOSTES. […]
(ARTICULO DE FACTUM DISPONIBLE EN ESPAÑOL AQUÍ) An article written by Gerson Najera Relatives and friends of victims of forced disappearance have gathered in a block to demand respect and an immediate response from the Government to the reports of disappearances. “I ask the president (Nayib Bukele) to be empathic. What if it was […]
Fitch Ratings has downgraded El Salvador’s Long-Term Foreign Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to ‘CCC’. In Fitch’s view, weakening of institutions and concentration of power in the presidency have increased policy unpredictability, and the adoption of bitcoin as legal tender has added uncertainty about the potential for an IMF program that would unlock financing for […]
Several citizens took to the streets today to remember that two years ago the current president forcibly entered the Legislative Assembly to pressure the members of Congress into approving a loan for his “Territorial Control Plan” This is what LA PRENSA GRAFICA reports: The Salvadoran Coordinator of Popular Movements and the Popular Resistance and Rebellion […]
The Honduras Solidarity Network (HSN) has been busy this week asking for support surrounding the trial of eight water defenders from Guapinol, Honduras. These activists have spent two years in prison on trumped up charges for defending the Guapinol and Sand Pedro rivers from a mining operation led by Honduran mining company Inversiones Los Pinares, […]
U.S. Chargé d’Affaires Jean Manes said today on local television that she will be returning to the U.S. and that relations between El Salvador and the United States are temporarily on hold “due to the Salvadoran government’s apparent lack of interest in dialogue” after several meetings where they wanted to verify whether the Salvadoran government […]
Since the Salvadoran government announced its intention to pass a “Foreign agents Law” that would create a new tax of 40% and a fine of up to $10,000 dollars to organizations deemed to be attempting against “national security”, several organizations and collectives have reacted, especially after Tuesday’s meeting where the Nuevas Ideas representatives approved a […]