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El Salvador Utilities and Communications
Most major utility companies in El Salvador were state owned
and operated. These included the National Water and Sewerage
Administration (Administracion Nacional de Acueductos y
Alcantarillados--ANDA), the National Telecommunications
Administration (Administracion Nacional de Telecomunicaciones--
Antel), and the National Electric Company, known formally as the
Rio Lempa Executive Hydroelectric Commission (Comision Ejecutiva
Hidroelectrica del Rio Lempa--CEL). These companies, responsible
for providing public services, operated fairly autonomously, even
though their budgets were controlled by the Legislative Assembly.
Government expenditures on economic services (including road
construction and maintenance, communications facilities, and
power plants and lines) declined from 29 percent of total
expenditures in 1976 to only 12 percent in 1985. Spending on
these services increased by 37 percent in nominal terms from
US$98 million in 1976 to US$135 million in 1985; during the same
period, government spending increased by 31 percent, from US$334
million to US$1.1 billion. In 1978 about 70 percent of these
service-oriented expenditures went for the building and
maintenance of roads, communications facilities, and power plants
and lines. This share declined to 53 percent in 1986, largely
because of increased spending on services to the agriculture
sector and the fishing industry.
Data as of November 1988
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