El Salvador faces a great opportunity to accelerate poverty reduction. Although poverty rates have dropped significantly over the past two decades, extreme poverty remains a challenge: by 2023, around ...

Ahead of Trump’s taking office, the move shields Venezuelans, Ukrainians, Salvadorans and Sudanese from possible deportation ...

El Salvador’s government says that criminal ... In the vacuum of weak governance and poverty in their home country, gang members reproduced their social structures and tactics and multiplied ...

Well, his thesis is that El Salvador is not really as poor as people would have you believe, but rather an economically-backward country where the incidence of extreme poverty is not unlike that of ...

Catholic bishops reaffirmed their opposition to President Nayib Bukele for lifting the 2017 mining ban, warning of serious ...

El Salvador's economic landscape provides important ... has been limited to between 2% and 3.5% 27% of Salvadorans live in poverty 70% of the workforce operates in the informal sector Bukele ...

Before the civil war, around 55 percent of El Salvador’s population had lived in poverty, while some 110 family groups reigned over the economy. According to Manzano: “The civil war left a poor and ...

However, rural poverty and high rates of violence and homicide are putting El Salvador's children at risk. Innocent children have been forced to flee their homes due to violence, gangs and crushing ...

Since 2022, the country has been under a state of emergency, during which time 83,000 arrests were made, dropping the murder ...

For years, a complex crisis of violence, gangs and crippling poverty has driven families to flee El Salvador and seek safety in the United States. By all accounts, the country is one of the world’s ...