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The Financial System Superintendence will strengthen public service’s efficiency
In order to respond to President Nayib Bukele’s government vision of making the country’s public services a more efficient and transparent model of administrative transformation, the Financial System Superintendence (SSF) signed four inter-institutional cooperation agreements. The objective: to improve the processes of fighting bureaucracy, strengthening supervision work, and improving public services provided to the population.
These agreements were signed by the Salvadorian Social Security Institute (ISSS), the National Registration Center (CNR) and the Deposit Guarantee Institute (IGD). They will expedite the exchange of information between the SSF Superintendence and the institutions. Thus improving services and strengthening supervision processes.
Two agreements were signed with the ISSS, through which members of the Pension Fund Administrators (AFP) and Institutes of the Public Pension System, including the ISSS and the National Institute of Public Employees’ Pensions (INPEP), will be benefited.
These agreements would allow for the information to be centralized in a single database, according to the terms established in Article 19 of the Pension Savings System Law. Both institutions will be able to immediately consult the data on the contribution forms.
The procedures carried out in the Disability Qualification Commission (CCI) of the Superintendence may now be carried out at the users-service posts in the Santa Ana and San Miguel ISSS. From now on, users will process their disability rating application faster.
Meanwhile, the agreement signed with the CNR will provide additional support to verify the transparency of the information provided by the supervised financial entities during the authorization process. Strengthening the technical knowledge of public service.
The agreement reached with the Deposit Guarantee Institute (IGD) will provide resources to facilitate the work done in benefit of depositors and the country’s financial system stability.
Central America
Venezuelan opposition leader to meet Costa Rican president Rodrigo Chaves on thursday
Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia will meet with Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves this Thursday, the Presidential Office of Costa Rica announced today.
“We will give a warm welcome to the person who won the July elections in Venezuela, and we continue to denounce electoral fraud,” President Chaves stated during his weekly press conference.
Meanwhile, Costa Rican Foreign Minister Arnoldo André explained that González Urrutia is visiting Costa Rica to “inform the president and provide details about the situation in Venezuela, the victory he achieved with over 7 million votes on July 28, and the electoral fraud committed by Nicolás Maduro’s regime, which fraudulently swore him in as president.”
González Urrutia is currently in Guatemala, having arrived from the Dominican Republic as part of a tour through several countries ahead of the controversial inauguration on January 10, during which the Chavista leader Nicolás Maduro was sworn in as president by the National Assembly, controlled by the ruling party.
Central America
President Arévalo highlights anti-corruption and drug trafficking efforts in first year report
Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo de León highlighted this Tuesday the progress made in the fight against corruption and drug trafficking as cornerstones of his first year at the helm of the Guatemalan government, during a session in Congress.
“We are in a process of transformation, but the commitment must be focused on eradicating the corruption that has oppressed us for so long,” said the president during the presentation of his first government report.
Arévalo de León urged lawmakers to “work together for structural change” in the country and thanked the president of the Legislative Body, Nery Ramos, for their joint efforts in the approval of various laws and the alliances formed during 2024.
The Guatemalan president highlighted as an achievement of his administration the denunciation of dozens of corruption structures embedded in state entities, such as fraud networks involving businessmen and former officials.
Central America
Honduras arrests former military leaders over 2009 killings
Former Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of Honduras, General Romeo Vásquez, was arrested on Sunday as the alleged person responsible for the 2009 killings of two individuals by military personnel, just days after leading the coup against former President Manuel Zelaya.
Along with him, the Deputy Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Venancio Cervantes, and the former commander of the Joint Operations Command were also detained, according to the Secretary of State for Security (Interior), Gustavo Sánchez, on his social media account X.
“The three arrests were made moments ago by the Honduran Police in coordination with the Public Ministry in Tegucigalpa and La Paz (west),” Sánchez said.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office had issued an arrest warrant for the three ex-military officials “on charges of homicide and aggravated assault” against Obed Murillo and Alex Zavala, who were attacked by “members of the Armed Forces,” according to the Public Ministry.
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