Tag Archives: coronavirus

Bukele’s response after disastrous Monday

Many people left quarantine yesterday expecting to receive money or to be included in the Government’s database, as advised by Nayib Bukele on national television and his own social media. Many people were devastated after not getting anything, national police used pepper spray on others, some were threatening to go inside supermarkets and others were […]

Update – people look for their economic support

President Nayib Bukele promised $300 USD to people affected by the COVID19 pandemic. First, they said people should log in to the webpage emergencia.covid19.gob.sv. He later said that some people attacked the website and, because of that, it was not working. They created another one: covid19-elsalvador.com, which, after warning you that it might be a […]

Former ICE Director: Release Immigrants from Detention / Antiguo director de migración: Liberen a migrantes detenidos (COVID19)

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO)   John Sandweg, former acting director of ICE, or Immigration and Customs Enforcement, during the Obama administration talked with DemocracyNow! about the situation with migrants currently detained and facing the threat of COVID19. Alarm is growing about the safety of more than 37,000 people held in immigrant detention centers and private jails […]

Community update during this pandemic

President Bukele declared that El Salvador would be in quarantine for 30 days. People that have been found on the streets have been detained and taken to forced quarantine. People have questioned this decision because it was not included in the Decree approved by the Legislative Assembly and it’s up to the soldiers themselves to […]

First official COVID19 case in El Salvador

(LEA LA NOTA DE ARPAS EN ESPAÑOL AQUÍ)   Yesterday, Nayib Bukele confirmed the first case of the new coronavirus COVID-19 in El Salvador. The president has said that they have placed a “sanitary cord” in Metapán (Santa Ana). According to Bukele, the person would have entered through a blind spot in Metapán. He explained […]

The salvadorans who can’t afford to stay at home amid pandemic

The first case of COVID19 reported in Guatemala was a person who was travelling with 5 Salvadorans, as reported by Guatemalan president Alejandro Giammattei. Nevertheless, no cases have been reported by the Salvadoran government as of today. Besides closing the airport to commercial flights, declaring the first regime of exception after the war, Nayib Bukele […]

El Salvador quarantined – chaos at the airport

Nayib Bukele decreed a 21 days quarantine throughout the territory, due to the threat of Coronavirus COVID-19. He assured there were no confirmed or suspected cases in the country and that these measures were preventive (X). Meetings of more than 500 people will be prohibited during thosee 21 days that started yesterday, March 11th. The […]