New luxury JW Marriott hotel on pace to break ground in San Salvador in 2025

Business

The Poma Group signed the agreement for the development of the hotel, which will have 186 rooms. The hotel brand JW Marriott will have a ...

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Over 700 U.S. companies have employed Salvadorans on temporary visas

Business, Politics

30 per cent of the beneficiaries received the temporary employment visa in 2024. More than 700 U.S. companies have employed just over 13,000 Salvadorans since ...

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Crime and violence cost 3.5% of GDP in Latin America, says IDB president

Politics

Both problems “increase the cost of doing business, weaken the rule of law and cost us 3.5 percent of the annual regional GDP,” Ilan Goldfajn ...

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Salvadoran cocoa exports break record for the last three decades

Business

The BCR reports that exports of cocoa and derived products grew by 20.8 % in the first semester. Salvadoran cocoa exports reached a record number ...

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Four out of 7 capacitors in the world are made in El Salvador

Business

So far in 2024, El Salvador has exported $77.6 million in capacitors manufactured by Kyocera AVX. The Salvadoran Association of Industrialists (ASI) said Tuesday that ...

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El Salvador’s international trade shows benefited more than 50 small entrepreneurs

Business

The fairs benefited more than 50 micro, small and medium-sized Salvadoran entrepreneurs, according to the government. The Salvadoran entrepreneurs’ fairs held in different parts of ...

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Venezuelans in Panama marched against electoral ‘fraud’

Politics

Venezuelans met, within the framework of the global call made by the main opposition alliance. Hundreds of Venezuelans demonstrated peacefully this Saturday in the Panamanian ...

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The Salvadoran group Unicomer arrives in the United States with the RadioShack brand

Business

Unicomer, with parent company in El Salvador, acquired RadioShack’s intellectual property and domain assets in about 70 countries in 2023, including the U.S. U.S. The ...

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Salvadorans send more than $2.1 million per hour through Transfer365

Business

The BCR’s interbank operations system served 67.9 per cent of market operations in 2023. Salvadorans sent more than $2.18 million per hour during 2023 through ...

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The European Union criticizes Maduro’s still unpublished results and is concerned about repression

Politics

The position of the European Union towards Venezuela is to maintain the demand that Maduro publish the results while “there is an ongoing negotiation” and ...

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