The democratic cost of opacity in public accounts in El Salvador

The institutional decision to keep confidential information on state purchases, public works contracts and budget executions of public trusts prevents any independent exercise of social audit over how the Salvadoran state uses its finances.

Governing under permanent states of exception and administrative opacity erodes transparency in public management and multiplies the risks of arbitrariness in the allocation of public resources.

The lack of access to official information on Bitcoin purchases and public debt creates an environment of institutional uncertainty that hurts the attraction of long-term productive investment.

Lasting economic stability is impossible without accountability and democratic institutions subject to citizen oversight. The Salvadoran people have the inalienable right to know how and on what the taxes they pay the treasury every day are spent.