The restrictions during the COVID19 pandemic are also affecting small farmers such as our friend in the Popular Movement of Organic Agriculture (MOPAO) in Tecoluca. They inform us that people over there are dealing with their own gardens and that they have organized a small market at “Radio Tehuacán” to sell some of their products. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
(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 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 […]
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 […]
The District Attorney’s ofice requested today to the first civil chamber that former ARENA president Antonio Saca and his wife return 4,559,621.65 US Dollars that they have not been able to justify. This money seems to have been laundered through their personal accounts and through their radio corporation SAMIX. (Source) Ana Ligia de Saca […]
(IN ENGLISH BELOW) En noviembre de 2019, el periodico “The Guardian” publicó un artículo titulado “Cómo los tanques de pensamiento de la derecha radical cambiaron al partido conservador“. Este artículo habla del rol que estos tanques de pensamiento (como FUSADES) tuvo en la separación del Reino Unido y la Unión Europea, lo que ahora […]
The magistrates of the First Criminal Chamber concluded that Judge Eduardo Jaime Escalante did not commit the crime of sexual assault, despite the fact that it was documented the touching of the genital area of a child under 10 years old, because the facts indicated it took place on a “public road”, briefly, without violence […]