El Salvador

Despite presidential hopeful Mauricio Funes, candidate for the left-wing Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN), claiming he would retain the country's peg to... 2008-11-03

El Salvador posted a trade shortfall of US$3.5bn in the first eight months of 2008 according to the central bank, putting the country on course to meet our full-year trade deficit... 2008-11-03

BMI View: Victory in El Salvador's fast approaching presidential election, scheduled for March 2009, is still very much up for grabs. Certainly, a revitalised Frente Farabundo Martí... 2008-10-30

Mauricio Funes, presidential candidate for the opposition Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation (FMLN), has reiterated that he would continue with the policies of dollarisation... 2008-10-02

BMI View: Consumer price inflation rose for the eighth successive month in August, coming in at a 12-year high of 9.9% y-o-y. However, we note that the month-on-month rate was significantly... 2008-10-02

El Salvadoran President Tony Saca has accused the opposition Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) of aligning itself with Venezuela's socialist leader Hugo Chávez ahead... 2008-07-30

Workers remittance inflows totalled US$1.94bn in the first six months of 2008, a 6.6% y-o-y rise from the previous year. While down from the double-digit rate seen in recent years,... 2008-07-30

BMI View: Political risk remains firmly on the radar in El Salvador. The government's popularity is shrinking as fast as inflation is rising, setting up the prospects of a possible... 2008-07-29

BMI View: Faced with mounting energy bills and shrinking popular support, an increasing number of Central American and Caribbean governments have turned to Venezuelan leader Hugo... 2008-07-22

El Salvador's congress approved a bill in June doubling the monthly subsidy given to public transport companies in a bid to keep prices under wraps. Bus and minibus companies now... 2008-07-02