LatinNews Daily - 02 June 2026

*El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele eschewed the annual state of the nation address traditionally delivered by the country’s head of state on 1 June for a pre-recorded national broadcast on radio and television during which he inaugurated the revamped Hospital Rosales in San Salvador. Bukele said that he thought it was “better for the Salvadorean public” for him to mark his seventh anniversary in power outlining “everything the new hospital will offer” rather than delivering another state of the nation address. The remodelled and modernised Hospital Rosales, now a tertiary referral hospital, will have “services that have not historically been provided by any institution in the country”, the hospital’s director, Marvin Aguilar, said during the televised tour with Bukele, including robotic surgery and bone marrow transplants. It will have 61 intensive and intermediate care beds and the capacity for 420 haemodialysis treatments daily. The legislative assembly ratified a loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for US$170m (of which around half was to be allocated for the hospital) in 2018, the year before Bukele took office.

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