El Salvador

China: The Asian Giant that could squash El Salvador’s Economy

abril 11, 2024

*Parsifal D’Sola, an analyst on Chinese foreign affairs and the director of the Andrés Bello Foundation, considered that the commercial approach had more of a geopolitical purpose. **Federico Hernández, an analyst on Salvadorian politics, emphasized that negotiations about a possible […]

The Ironic Lack of Transparency in the Construction of the Glass Library

The Ironic Lack of Transparency in the Construction of the Glass Library Promised to El Salvador by China

abril 11, 2024

* China erects the new national library of El Salvador in complete secrecy.  ** The building, located in the heart of the historic center, is the second visible work resulting from Chinese cooperation in this Central American country.  ** Last […]

Two years of Bitcoin in El Salvador, Nayib Bukele's flagship project

Two years of Bitcoin in El Salvador, Nayib Bukele’s flagship project that does not stand out

abril 11, 2024

* The Salvadoran president announced in 2021 that this Central American country would be the world capital of cryptocurrency.  ** The government spent $120 million and created the Chivo e-wallet to popularize the use of the cryptocurrency, but it fell […]

Impunity prevails in El Salvador for the forced disappearance of children

Impunity prevails in El Salvador for the forced disappearance of children during the civil war

abril 11, 2024

* The pioneering organization in the search for children abducted by the army in the 1980s continues to face a lack of interest from the government in power.  ** The authoritarian government of President Nayib Bukele weakens the institutions created […]

Why do more than 100,000 Salvadorans leave Nayib Bukele’s?

Why do more than 100,000 salvadorans leave Nayib Bukele’s paradise every year?

abril 11, 2024

* A diagnosis of the causes of migration in this Central American country shows that Salvadorans continue to flee for the same structural reasons as always: security and economic crisis.  ** Salvadorans rank first among asylum seekers in proportion to […]

Bukele ahoga económicamente a universidad pública en El Salvador

Bukele ahoga económicamente a universidad pública en El Salvador

abril 9, 2024

* El gobierno de Nayib Bukele adeuda casi 53 millones de dólares del presupuesto del único centro de estudios superiores de carácter público en El Salvador. ** Las autoridades de la llamada Alma Mater salvadoreña reconocen que atraviesan una crisis […]