“We serve as guarantors for a loan made by Bandesal”

Deputy Anabel Belloso, of the FMLN, questions the administration of the Development Bank of El Salvador (Bandesal) of funds obtained from loans whose guarantees have been approved by the Legislative Assembly. The Assembly approved guarantees for $ 240 million and will evaluate another for $ 35 million. “It is precisely the figure of being a … Read more

Mario Ponce to Ministers of the Interior and Housing: “This podium is to give a report, it is not to come to insult” | News from El Salvador

The holders of these State portfolios occupied the space in the plenary to criticize the previous governments and defend President Bukele and the Minister of Defense. The space that the Minister of the Interior had, Mario Durán, was booed by the deputies, because the official took advantage of the main stage of the Blue Room … Read more

“It is implausible” that no one has given an order to break into the Assembly with soldiers, say lawyers | News from El Salvador

The deputies question the Defense Minister today, the issue is the “militarization” of Congress on February 9. Before the evasions of the Minister of Defense, René Francis Merino Monroy, to the questions of the deputies of who gave him the order to enter the Blue Room with the ArmyLawyers such as Eduardo Escobar, director of … Read more

For the second day, the Government does not attend the call of the Political Commission to deal with the ruling of the Chamber on quarantine | News from El Salvador

Mario Ponce told the Government that “laws are made in the Assembly.” Again, the Executive held a parallel meeting at the San Rafael hospital. Ponce called a plenary session at 2:00 p.m. to enter the Executive’s request for another declaration of emergency. For the second day, the deputies of the Political Commission of the Assembly … Read more

Private company opens June 8; the Government on 15 | News from El Salvador

Public transportation will depend on a plan that the VMT presents in the first seven days of the law. The Legislative Assembly approved yesterday with 56 votes the new comprehensive health quarantine and economic reopening law, which includes the gradual resumption of activities of the private sector by June 8, and the public sector by … Read more

Bukele Refuses to Give Report June 1, Assembly Demands It | News from El Salvador

The report of the first year of government is maintained for Monday, June 1 at ten in the morning, replied Norman Quijano through a tweet. Nayib Bukele remains reluctant to account for his management. Less than three days to comply his first year at the head of the Executive body, sent a correspondence to the … Read more

Doctor Fabio Castillo: “There is contradiction, there is chaos … it is a legal hell” | News from El Salvador

Fabio Castillo does not hesitate to warn that with the invasion of the Bukele government into the functions of the Assembly, the country has reached a level worse than that of the 9F. Left-wing lawyer and former substitute magistrate of the Supreme Court, José Fabio Castillo recognizes virtues for President Nayib Bukele, but also strongly … Read more

Universities and the private sector resign from the funds supervisory committee due to opacity in the handling of $ 2 billion | News from El Salvador

Representatives of the five civil society institutions that made up the committee to analyze the good use of the funds indicated unilateral decisions that leave them without reason. The opacity in the handling of $ 2,000 million in debt that the Government has guaranteed to acquire this year to face the crisis of COVID-19 is … Read more

Mario Ponce calls a special plenary this Thursday to address lawlessness of Norman Quijano | News from El Salvador

The plenary session has been scheduled for 9 in the morning. The favorable opinion must have 43 votes to remove the immunity and to be criminally prosecuted as a common citizen. The president of the Legislative Assembly, Mario Ponce, called a special plenary session for this Thursday, which will address the ruling of lawlessness against … Read more

Assembly overcomes veto among Bukele’s “recommendation” to close plenary | News from El Salvador

Bukele “recommended”, in a tweet, to close plenary for “suspicion of COVID-19 in Blue Room”. Mario Ponce closed the plenary and said that “jokes” from the same deputies caused that. In a surreal case, the deputies hurried the vote yesterday to overcome the veto of benefits for doctors who fight against COVID-19, after President Nayib … Read more