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The Foreign Ministry, through its Labor Mobility Program, held today a selection process for human talent to work temporarily in the United States in the areas of cooking, tree trimming, hotel cleaning and heavy construction machinery.

Under Secretary of International Trade, Marisa Lago, concluded her visit to El Salvador by participating in a joint statement with the Minister of Economy, Maria Luisa Hayem, to highlight the shared commitment to continue working towards an appropriate regulatory environment to attract foreign direct investment.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued 850,930 passports to salvadorans residing in the United States through the consular network in four years of management.

LIV Golf and the multiplatform of Claro Sports and Marca Claro bring to Mexico and Latin America a new way to enjoy the best international golf.

According to this month's report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the faltering recovery of 2021 has been followed by an increasingly dismal evolution in 2022, due to the risks that began to materialize, such as inflation, rising rates, the war in Ukraine, COVID 19, among others.

Family remittances sent to El Salvador between january and march 2022 accumulated US$1,802.3 million, registering a growth of 5.9%, equivalent to an additional US$100.5 million compared to march 2021.

Every day more and more people join the network of users of Zelle, a payment app created in 2017 by the largest banking institutions in the United States, to transfer money instantly.

The Ministry of Tourism (MITUR), indicated that compared to 2019, this 2021 the percentage of tourists traveling to El Salvador from the U.S. for the Thanksgiving holiday, is 51% more, data that was provided by ForwardKeys, a company that provides information to tourism organizations interested in knowing who travels where, when and for how long.

According to the Banco Central de Reserva (BCR), family remittances received in El Salvador from abroad accumulated US$4,901.2 million in the period from january to august 2021, showing a growth of 35.0% compared to the same period last year, equivalent to an additional US$1,271.2 million.

The Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia (SFC) authorized Grupo Bancolombia to initiate procedures for the creation of a new broker-dealer and an investment advisor in the United States. These companies will allow the Group to deepen its internationalization strategy, which already consolidates its presence in Central America with personal, commercial and corporate banking.