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Bitcoin surge: El Salvador president celebrates investment exceeding $600 million, Vancouver mayor consider similar move
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Bitcoin surge: El Salvador president celebrates investment exceeding $600 million, Vancouver mayor consider similar move

Live Mint  

Bitcoin surge: El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele celebrated as Bitcoin surpassed $100,000 level for the first time this week, hitting its all-time high and boosting the Central American government's investment in the crypto token to over $600 million, according to an AP report. And now, Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim has said the city would also consider a similar investment in …

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El Salvador’s president is triumphant after his bet on bitcoin comes true
2 weeks, 4 days ago

El Salvador’s president is triumphant after his bet on bitcoin comes true

Associated Press  

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — As bitcoin reached historic highs, surpassing $100,000 for the first tim e, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele was triumphant on Thursday about his big bet on the cryptocurrency. The tiny Central American country has long used the dollar as currency, but Bukele promised bitcoin would provide new opportunities for El Salvador’s unbanked and cut out …

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El Salvador’s president is triumphant after his bet on bitcoin comes true
2 weeks, 5 days ago

El Salvador’s president is triumphant after his bet on bitcoin comes true

LA Times  

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele gives a speech during the inauguration of an industrial data center in Ciudad Arce, El Salvador, on July 16. As bitcoin reached historic highs, surpassing $100,000 for the first time, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele was triumphant about his big bet on the cryptocurrency. World & Nation How a California surfer helped bring bitcoin to …

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Catholic church calls on president of El Salvador not to lift ban on gold mining
3 weeks, 1 day ago

Catholic church calls on president of El Salvador not to lift ban on gold mining

Associated Press  

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The Roman Catholic Church called on the president of El Salvador Sunday not to lift the country’s ban on gold mining. Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas asked President Nayib Bukele not to reverse the ban, which has been in place since 2017. On Wednesday, Bukele called the 7-year-old ban on metals mining “absurd,” and claimed …

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El Salvador president proposes ending country’s metals mining ban
3 weeks, 5 days ago

El Salvador president proposes ending country’s metals mining ban

Associated Press  

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele proclaimed himself in favor of mining gold in the Central America country Wednesday and called his nation’s 7-year-old ban on metals mining “absurd,” immediately putting in jeopardy the historic prohibition. The unmined gold would be “wealth that could transform El Salvador,” he wrote on the social platform X. Bukele’s party …

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Costa Rica bestows highest diplomatic honor on El Salvador President Bukele for security gains
1 month, 1 week ago

Costa Rica bestows highest diplomatic honor on El Salvador President Bukele for security gains

Associated Press  

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Costa Rica on Monday bestowed its highest diplomatic honor on El Salvador President Nayib Bukele for his success in lowering levels of violence during a more than two-year campaign against powerful street gangs. Yet Bukele’s recognition brought controversy in Costa Rica, long known as Central America’s most stable democracy. “El Salvador’s rescue from those nefarious …

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Bukele es condecorado en una Costa Rica que vive sus años más violentos
1 month, 1 week ago

Bukele es condecorado en una Costa Rica que vive sus años más violentos

LA Times  

El presidente de El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, antes de recibir el más alto reconocimiento diplomático de Costa Rica de parte del presidente Rodrigo Chaves en el palacio presidencial en San José, Costa Rica, el lunes 11 de noviembre de 2024. El presidente de El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, fue condecorado el lunes en Costa Rica por su homólogo Rodrigo Chaves, justo …

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Exclusive: Locking eyes with mass murderers in El Salvador’s Cecot prison
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Exclusive: Locking eyes with mass murderers in El Salvador’s Cecot prison

CNN  

Tecoluca, El Salvador CNN — Sunlight pours into the cavernous building. This is Cecot — El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center — and the men are known as the “worst of the worst.” Mass murderers, drug dealers and gangsters, they are accused of once holding El Salvador hostage, gripping the nation with fear as they ruled cities and streets. We don’t …

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El Salvador Commits $350 Million to River Conservation Through Debt Refinancing
2 months ago

El Salvador Commits $350 Million to River Conservation Through Debt Refinancing

Associated Press  

El Salvador commits $350 million to river conservation through a debt-for-nature swap with the U.S. government. The deal will focus on the Lempa River, which provides two-thirds of the country's water supply. The money will be used to finance conservation projects benefiting the river, including water security and ecosystem restoration.

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Bukele claims he cleaned up El Salvador. But at what cost?
3 months ago

Bukele claims he cleaned up El Salvador. But at what cost?

LA Times  

The last time I was in El Salvador, nearly a decade ago, the capital was gripped by the violence of gangs who terrified people — dictating where they could shop, work, go to school or even cross a street. El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele gives a speech during the inauguration of an industrial data center in Ciudad Arce, El Salvador. …

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Attempted prison escape in Honduras leaves 2 inmates dead and 3 injured
3 months ago

Attempted prison escape in Honduras leaves 2 inmates dead and 3 injured

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — An attempted prison break early Thursday in Honduras left two inmates dead and three injured, authorities said. According to officials, a total of 72 prisoners took part in the attempted escape from the men’s prison in the town of Tamara, about 19 miles from the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa. The carnage led to calls for change to …

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Human rights body urges El Salvador to end state of emergency
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Human rights body urges El Salvador to end state of emergency

Associated Press  

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights urged El Salvador Wednesday to end the more than two-year state of emergency, which has suspended fundamental civil rights while the government pursued the country’s powerful street gangs. The regional human rights body noted that plunging rates of violence in El Salvador made clear that the state of emergency …

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El Salvador President Nayib Bukele says security sustainable without a state of emergency
3 months, 3 weeks ago

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele says security sustainable without a state of emergency

Associated Press  

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Nearly 2½ years into a state of emergency that has suspended key civil liberties in El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele says the security advances achieved are sustainable without what was supposed to be a temporary measure. Each month, El Salvador’s congress, which is comfortably controlled by Bukele’s New Ideas party and its allies, approves another …

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Trump’s foreign strategy still rests heavily on courting autocrats
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Trump’s foreign strategy still rests heavily on courting autocrats

LA Times  

When El Salvador’s autocratic president, Nayib Bukele, celebrated his inauguration this summer, guests of honor included Donald Trump Jr., Tucker Carlson and Rep. Matt Gaetz, the firebrand Republican from Florida. Trump has repeatedly praised Orbán as “a great man, a strong man.” Along with Bukele, both controversial leaders — as well as Argentina’s president, Javier Milei — spoke at this …

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At least 261 people have died in El Salvador's prisons under anti-gang crackdown, rights group says
5 months, 1 week ago

At least 261 people have died in El Salvador's prisons under anti-gang crackdown, rights group says

Hindustan Times  

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The human rights organization Cristosal said Wednesday that at least 261 people have died in prisons in El Salvador during President Nayib Bukele's 2 1/2-year-old crackdown on street gangs. At least 261 people have died in El Salvador's prisons under anti-gang crackdown, rights group says Under a state of emergency originally declared in 2022 and …

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At least 261 people have died in El Salvador’s prisons under anti-gang crackdown, rights group says
5 months, 1 week ago

At least 261 people have died in El Salvador’s prisons under anti-gang crackdown, rights group says

Associated Press  

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The human rights organization Cristosal said Wednesday that at least 261 people have died in prisons in El Salvador during President Nayib Bukele’s 2 1/2-year-old crackdown on street gangs. “People have died in El Salvador’s prisons and jails because of torture, a lack of food, unhealthy conditions, an inhuman lack of attention and cruel, inhuman …

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El Salvador’s president threatens to use gang-crackdown style tactics against price gougers
5 months, 2 weeks ago

El Salvador’s president threatens to use gang-crackdown style tactics against price gougers

Associated Press  

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, famous for his heavy-handed crackdown on street gangs, threatened to use similar tactics against price gougers. “We told them either stop killing people, or don’t complain about what happens afterward.” “Well, I’m going to issue a message to the importers, distributors and food wholesalers: stop abusing the people of El Salvador, …

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US dampens criticism of El Salvador’s president as migration overtakes democracy concerns
6 months, 3 weeks ago

US dampens criticism of El Salvador’s president as migration overtakes democracy concerns

Associated Press  

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — In 2021, the Biden administration turned down a meeting request with El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, on a trip to Washington, snubbing the self-proclaimed “world’s coolest dictator” for fear a photo op would embolden his attempts to expand his power base. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and senior White House and State Department officials, attended …

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El Salvador president announces 5,000 free passport scheme. Details here
8 months, 2 weeks ago

El Salvador president announces 5,000 free passport scheme. Details here

Hindustan Times  

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has announced to give 5,000 free passports to highly skilled scientists, engineers, doctors, artists, and philosophers from abroad. Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele Taking to X on Sunday, Bukele wrote: "We're offering 5,000 free passports to highly skilled scientists, engineers, doctors, artists, and philosophers from abroad." "This represents less than 0.1% of our population, so granting …

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At least 241 people have died in El Salvador’s prisons during the ‘war on gangs,’ rights group says
8 months, 2 weeks ago

At least 241 people have died in El Salvador’s prisons during the ‘war on gangs,’ rights group says

New Indian Express  

SAN SALVADOR: At least 241 people have died in El Salvador prisons since the start of President Nayib Bukele’s “war on gangs” two years ago, according to the organization Humanitarian Legal Relief. In March 2022, Bukele announced a “state of exception,” waiving many constitutional rights to combat the gangs that have terrorized the Central American nation. Since then, El Salvador …

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At least 241 people have died in El Salvador’s prisons during the ‘war on gangs,’ rights group says
8 months, 2 weeks ago

At least 241 people have died in El Salvador’s prisons during the ‘war on gangs,’ rights group says

Associated Press  

SAN SALVADOR — At least 241 people have died in El Salvador prisons since the start of President Nayib Bukele’s “war on gangs” two years ago, according to the organization Humanitarian Legal Relief. According to the NGO report, “of these deaths, 44% died of violent death, serious torture, 29% due to lack of medical attention.” While the government is accused …

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Hungary's autocrat leader Viktor Orban dishes dirt on Trump meeting claiming ex-President has 'detailed plans' to end the war in Ukraine by not giving 'a single penny' to fight Russia
9 months, 1 week ago

Hungary's autocrat leader Viktor Orban dishes dirt on Trump meeting claiming ex-President has 'detailed plans' to end the war in Ukraine by not giving 'a single penny' to fight Russia

Daily Mail  

Hungary's strongman leader Viktor Orban revealed intimate details surrounding his controversial visit with Donald Trump in Mar-a-Lago over the weekend, including how the ex-president plans to 'end the war' in Ukraine. Melania Trump was serenaded to the sounds of Roy Orbison's Pretty Woman on Friday night as she was handed a bouquet of flowers by Hungarian autocrat leader Viktor Orban …

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El Salvador extends anti-gang emergency decree for 24th time. It's now been in effect for two years
9 months, 2 weeks ago

El Salvador extends anti-gang emergency decree for 24th time. It's now been in effect for two years

The Independent  

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El Salvador extends anti-gang emergency decree for 24th time. It’s now been in effect for two years
9 months, 2 weeks ago

El Salvador extends anti-gang emergency decree for 24th time. It’s now been in effect for two years

Associated Press  

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador’s lawmakers have granted a request by President Nayib Bukele for the 24th consecutive one-month extension of an anti-gang emergency decree. Bukele has used emergency powers to round up 78,175 suspected gang members in sweeps that rights groups say are often arbitrary, based on a person’s appearance or where they live. El Salvador’s homicide …

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