News El Salvador Ahuachapan: El Salvador's president is running for reelection, though critics say the constitution prohibits him
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has registered to run for reelection next year, his party announced Monday, despite objections from legal experts and opposition figures who say the country’s constitution prohibits his candidacy. The constitutional question may not play a big role in the 2024 race, because Bukele's approval ratings are running above 80% in many polls, following a reduction in crime stemming from his harsh-but-popular crackdown on gangs. Bukele is popular in El Salvador but considered controversial internationally.
News El Salvador Ahuachapan: Inside El Salvador’s battle with violence, poverty, and U.S. policy
Like many in El Salvador, he doesn’t want to reveal his name. As a teenager in rural Usulután, one of the country’s 14 departments, he’d been pressured to join Mara Salvatrucha, the largest ...
News El Salvador Ahuachapan: Guatemala's presidential hopefuls channel heavy-handed tactics of El Salvador's leader
The formula of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has become well-known to citizens across Latin America, and the tough-talking, Bitcoin-loving leader enjoys approval ratings the envy of any world ...
News El Salvador Ahuachapan: US Senators Still Think Bitcoin Adoption in El Salvador Could Pose a Threat
U.S. senators have reintroduced a bipartisan bill asking for a State Department report on El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin.
News El Salvador Ahuachapan: Bitcoin Surfing Tourists Are Flocking to El Salvador—What’s the Big Deal?
Murders have dropped massively in El Salvador, attracting lots of tourism. Thank its Bitcoin-loving president for the turnaround.
News El Salvador Ahuachapan: El Salvador’s gang crackdown stretches to one-year mark with no sign of slowing
El Salvador on Tuesday surpassed the one-year mark since the gang-ridden nation began cracking down on organized crime under an emergency-ordered anti-gang measure that was originally intended to ...
News El Salvador Ahuachapan: El Salvador wants Mexican official prosecuted for deadly migrant fire
A Salvadoran official wants Mexico’s immigration commissioner to be fired and face criminal charges for a fire that left 40 migrants dead in Juarez.
News El Salvador Ahuachapan: El Salvador opens 40,000-person prison as arrests soar in gang crackdown
Authorities in El Salvador have opened one of Latin America's largest prisons, more than doubling the country's incarceration capacity, as a government crackdown on criminal gangs is causing the prison population to soar.
News El Salvador Ahuachapan: El Salvador’s ‘limited’ use of Bitcoin prevents forecasted risks, says IMF
The IMF stated that El Salvador should address Bitcoin’s risk to the country’s fiscal sustainability and consumer protection, as well as its financial integrity and stability. It highlighted ...
News El Salvador Ahuachapan: El Salvador
The smallest country in Central America geographically, El Salvador has the fourth largest economy in the region. With the global recession, real GDP contracted in 2009 and economic growth has ...
News El Salvador Ahuachapan: Visiting El Salvador’s Slums, It’s Clear Bitcoin Country Must Go Further
A visit to Soyapango, one of El Salvador’s most impoverished slums, shows that the Bitcoin experiment isn’t reaching those who need it most. This is an opinion editorial by Rikki, author and co-host ...
News El Salvador Ahuachapan: El Salvador deploys 10,000 soldiers, police to town in gang crackdown
The government of El Salvador has sent 10,000 soldiers and police to seal off a town on the outskirts of the nation's capital to search for gang members. The operation was one of the largest mobilizations yet in President Nayib Bukele's nine-month-old crackdown on street gangs
News El Salvador Ahuachapan: Volcano begins to erupt in eastern El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Authorities in El Salvador on Monday warned residents near the Chaparrastique volcano in the country's east to be alert after it began to erupt. The ...
News El Salvador Ahuachapan: El Salvador fights gangs by destroying members' tombstones
El Salvadorâs government has taken its efforts against the countryâs powerful street gangs to another level by sending inmates into cemeteries to destroy the tombs of gang members at a time of year when families typically visit their loved onesâ graves
News El Salvador Ahuachapan: El Salvador’s Bitcoin purchase information can’t be made public: Trustee
Ever since El Salvador legalized Bitcoin (BTC) as mainstream tender, President Nayib Bukele used Twitter on numerous occasions to announce the country’s BTC acquisitions. However, ALAC El ...
News El Salvador Ahuachapan: El Salvador's Bitcoin Experiment: A Stroke of Genius or Pure Madness?
A little over a year ago, El Salvador made a bold bet on Bitcoin. The Central American nation of 6.5 million residents became the first country in the world to accept Bitcoin as legal tender. Led by its young president, Nayib Bukele, El Salvador sought to change its economic fortunes overnight with this decision.
News El Salvador Ahuachapan: El Salvador to repurchase more of its debt
El Salvador’s government will make a second buyback of its sovereign debt bonds maturing in 2023 and 2025 as it tries to calm market concerns that it could default on ...
News El Salvador Ahuachapan: Women's rights and gender justice
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