Catching up on the news

After being on a vacation for a few weeks, here are some short news pieces to catch you up on what is happening in El Salvador. Internationa...

Close of presidential campaigns in El Salvador

All the presidential candidates had events this weekend to mark the close of their election campaigns.  Carlos Calleja, the candidate from A...

Disturbances in Santa Tecla leave one dead and many wounded

It has happened before.   It will happen again.   When a local city government attempts to relocate the places where informal vendors hawk t...

Carlos Calleja and ARENA's past

The National Republican Alliance ("ARENA" for its initials in Spanish) is the major right wing political party in El Salvador.   I...

Bukele has lead in polls, but still has work to do

Recent polling by La Prensa Grafica indicates that Nayib Bukele, as a candidate for the GANA party, leads the race towards the February 201...

ARENA still celebrates man who ordered Romero's assassination

Yesterday, would have been the 75th birthday of former Salvadoran major Roberto D'Aubuisson, leader of death and torture squads, giver o...

Bukele goes to GANA after TSE cancels CD

The 2019 presidential election outlook changed again today as El Salvador's Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE)  announced that it would d...

The battle over water legislation in El Salvador

The month of June has seen a surge in the conflict over the water crisis in El Salvador and what steps are necessary to solve it. This dispu...