El Salvador

  • Aug 9, 2001
  • 8 min read

EL SALVADOR: Tighter laws to fight crime

Congress approved a series of stricter reforms to its criminal and penal codes last month, in an...

El Salvador
  • Aug 9, 2001
  • 1 min read

EL SALVADOR: Tighter laws to fight crime

Violent crime has increased in the past decade, despite attempts to create a modern judicial...

El Salvador
  • Feb 26, 2001
  • 1 min read

US/EL SALVADOR:

President Francisco Flores is to meet President George Bush on Thursday.

El Salvador
  • Feb 14, 2001
  • 1 min read

EL SALVADOR:

An earthquake killed at least 174 people yesterday, exactly a month after a previous quake had...

El Salvador
  • Feb 9, 2001
  • 8 min read

EL SALVADOR: Earthquake fails to shake dollarisation

The Central Bank announced at the end of last month that the process of dollarising the economy...

El Salvador
  • Feb 9, 2001
  • 1 min read

EL SALVADOR:

Last December's decision by the Flores administration formally to adopt the dollar was an...

El Salvador
  • Jan 17, 2001
  • 1 min read

EL SALVADOR:

Finance Minister Jose Luis Trigueros has estimated the cost of the damage caused by Saturday's...

El Salvador
  • Jan 4, 2001
  • 6 min read

EL SALVADOR: Confusion and distrust may derail dollar

The phasing out of the national currency, the colon, in favour of the US dollar began on January...

El Salvador