The Salvadoran Government gave a proposed budget for 2021 on September 30th, this is ARPAS assessment about it: The presentation took place amid exacerbations of the permanent tension between the government and the Legislative Assembly, this time due to the refusal of the Minister of Finance, Alejandro Zelaya, to explain the use of the […]
Puede leer el comunicado en español abajo. Despite the fact that Chalatenango suffered tremendously before and during the civil war and despite the fact that several Organizations hoped that the current government would support their fight for restorative justice, Arcatao, Nueva Trinidad, San Fernando and San Ignacio, four communities of the area, are suffering […]
FACTUM reports: The government of Nayib Bukele used subsidiaries in the energy sector to create his own newspaper. Perforadora Santa Bárbara, one of the La Geo companies, owned by Grupo CEL, established the public limited company El Diario Nacional (EDN), which registered the trademark Diario El Salvador, the official newspaper published by the Executive Branch […]
(EN ESPAÑOL AQUÍ) Karen Fernández, from FOCOS TV, interviewed former Ambassador Mari Carmen Aponte. They talked about Joe Biden’s campaign, the situation for Salvadoran migrants and the relationship of current Ambassador Johnson with president Nayib Bukele. I just want to clarify one point, in recent decades in the region, the United States has […]
On October 5th, a new newscast started broadcasting on a State channel to report the government’s activities. ARPAS editorial offers the following analysis: Nayib Bukele (…) has managed to impose himself on the agenda and in the public debate thanks to the intensive use of social media and the condescension of most traditional media, especially […]
(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO) President Nayib Bukele held a press conference on September 24 in which Ambassador Ronald Johnson made a special video appearance. Bukele spoke about the military files of the El Mozote case, made new appointments and also spoke about the letter sent by Democrats concerned about the situation of independent journalism in […]
FACTUM reports: The Minister of National Defense, Francis Merino Monroy, asked the magistrates of the Supreme Court of Justice to stop the inspection of military archives scheduled for next Monday, September 21, as part of the proceedings ordered by a judge in the criminal case for the massacre that occurred in El Mozote in 1981. […]
Estamos hablando de diez u once que fueron los que firmaron de trescientos ochenta y tantos que son los senadores en Estados Unidos. No representan ni siquiera el cinco por ciento de ellos. Esto quiere decir que no es unánime, que no es una visión que tenga realmente el gobierno de los Estados Unidos, sino […]
EFE and La Prensa Grafica report that president Nayib Bukele has designated Vice-president Félix Ulloa to study and coordinate proposals to reform the Constitution of El Salvador. The appointment appears registered in the Official Gazette, dated September 1, 2020 and is posted on the institution’s website under agreement 295. According to what is read, […]
(EN ESPAÑOL AQUI) The United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, Diego García-Sayán, considered unacceptable and worrying the words of President Nayib Bukele, who assured that if he were a dictator he would “shoot (the magistrates of the Constitutional Chamber) or something like that”. On his broadcast on August 9, […]