Free trade agreement with South Korea signed together with Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras and Panama, is now fully effective

The majority of Salvadorans support President Nayib Bukele's exceptional regime against gangs, but many disagree with suspending constitutional guarantees, according to recent University study

El Salvador's economic growth in 2023 was the highest in the last 30 years, according to the latest data from the Central Reserve Bank (BCR)

This week El Salvador marks two years under a state of exception, initiated after an extortion-motivated massacre of 87 people in March 2022; to date, the government has captured 78.175 alleged gang members

The country has stored over US$400 million in Bitcoin in an offline "cold wallet," as the cryptocurrency hits new all-time highs; President, Nayib Bukele, called it El Salvador's “first crypto piggy bank”