Noticiero El Salvador (薩爾瓦多新聞) is the flagship news program of the state-owned television network Canal 10, which officially debuted its current format on October 5, 2020. Operated under the Secretariat of Communications of the Presidency, Canal 10 serves as the primary broadcast vehicle for government narratives, maintaining complete editorial alignment with executive policy.
The Chinese Embassy in El Salvador was established following the normalization of diplomatic relations on August 21, 2018, when State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (王毅) and Salvadoran Foreign Minister Carlos Castaneda signed a joint communiqué in Beijing, with El Salvador simultaneously severing ties with Taiwan. El Salvador subsequently joined the Belt and Road Initiative, and President Nayib Bukele made his first state visit to China in 2019, signing a series of memoranda of understanding covering infrastructure, agriculture, and tourism. The embassy is located at Avenida Olímpica entre 71 y 73 Avenida Sur, Residencia 3742, Colonia Escalón, San Salvador.
Diario El Salvador (薩爾瓦多日報) is a state-owned morning newspaper launched on October 19, 2020, under the administration of President Nayib Bukele.It is operated by El Diario Nacional S.A. de C.V., a company owned by subsidiaries of the state electricity commission, Rio Lempa Executive Hydroelectric Commission (CEL).The outlet was established to provide a government-aligned alternative to traditional private media, with a significant portion of its revenue derived from state advertising and public sector subscriptions. It maintains a formal cooperation with China’s Xinhua News Agency, frequently co-publishing content that highlights bilateral infrastructure projects and diplomatic milestones.
Nuevas Ideas (新理念黨) is the dominant ruling political party of El Salvador, founded on October 25, 2017, by President Nayib Bukele. The party was officially registered on August 21, 2018, as a big tent movement established to dismantle the long-standing legislative duopoly of the right-wing ARENA and the left-wing FMLN. Under the leadership of party president Xavier Zablah Bukele, the organization has emerged as a force that has “changed the map of political pluralism in El Salvador.” , securing supermajorities in the Legislative Assembly during both the 2021 and 2024 elections. Its platform, centered on the persona of President Bukele, focuses on security and infrastructure while rejecting traditional ideological labels.
Perforadora Santa Bárbara S.A. de C.V. (聖巴巴拉鑽井公司), renamed Inversiones Santa Bárbara (ISB) in September 2021, is a Salvadoran state-owned subsidiary primarily engaged in the geothermal energy sector. It is a direct subsidiary of LaGeo, which is in turn owned by the state electricity commission, Rio Lempa Executive Hydroelectric Commission (CEL). Although its official business focus involves the sale of machinery and spare parts for geothermal well drilling, the company serves as the 99 percent majority shareholder of El Diario Nacional S.A. de C.V., the corporate entity behind the pro-government newspaper Diario El Salvador. Investigations published by El Salvador Now have revealed that the company acted as a financial intermediary, receiving multi-million dollar loans from LaGeo to fund the newspaper’s launch and operations. This corporate structure has been described by legal analysts as a “flight from administrative law,” allowing the government to manage public funds through private corporate shells to avoid the transparency requirements typically applied to state institutions.
Founded on November 4, 1964 as an educational television initiative under the Ministry of Education, Canal 10 (第十頻道) is El Salvador’s only state-owned television channel. Following President Nayib Bukele’s assumption of office in 2019, the station was placed under the Secretariat of Communications of the Presidency, shifting its primary function from educational content to serving as the government’s main television platform. Operating within the Sistema Nacional de Medios Públicos (SINAMP), it produces “Noticias de El Salvador,” its flagship news program launched in September 2020. Canal 10 pioneered El Salvador’s transition to digital broadcasting on December 21, 2018, and currently maintains national reach via digital terrestrial television.
El Diario Nacional S.A. de C.V. (國家日報股份有限公司) is a Salvadoran commercial corporation established on March 3, 2020, to serve as the legal and administrative vehicle for the state-run newspaper, Diario El Salvador. The company was incorporated by subsidiaries of the Rio Lempa Executive Hydroelectric Commission (CEL), specifically Perforadora Santa Bárbara (99 percent shareholder) and the Compañía de Luz Eléctrica de Ahuachapán (1 percent shareholder). By utilizing a private corporate structure under the umbrella of state-owned energy entities, the firm operates with the commercial flexibility of a private business while being sustained by public resources and government advertising contracts. It is headquartered within the CEL facilities in San Salvador and serves as the primary entity for formalizing international media partnerships, including content-sharing frameworks with the PRC’s Xinhua News Agency.
Founded on September 29, 2024, the Tianjin University Global South Institute (天津大學全球南方研究院) is China’s first university-based research center dedicated to Global South studies. Housed within the School of Foreign Languages and led by Executive Director Professor Wang Zhan (王戰), the institute operates as a state-oriented think tank explicitly tasked with serving Chinese national strategy and advancing Beijing’s vision of a “community with a shared future for mankind.” It maintains four research centers focused on Francophone countries, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, East Asia, and the United States and India, and runs a multilingual public opinion monitoring and AI translation platform tracking political and social developments across Global South nations.
Canal N is a Peruvian pay-television news channel founded on July 4, 1999, and headquartered in Lima, as part of the El Comercio media group. It was Peru’s first 24-hour cable news channel, with programming focused on current affairs and political coverage. The channel was created under journalist Gilberto Hume and was instrumental in the fall of President Alberto Fujimori, who ruled from 1990 to 2000 and was later convicted of human rights abuses and corruption. In 2021, the channel drew criticism after journalists were forced out for refusing to produce coverage favorable to Keiko Fujimori’s presidential campaign.