Thousands protest in El Salvador against Bukele government
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Thousands protest in El Salvador against Bukele government

Al Jazeera  

Thousands of protesters have marched in El Salvador’s capital San Salvador against the actions of President Nayib Bukele’s government, including the move to make Bitcoin legal tender in the country. “People are starting to get tired of this authoritarian government, anti-democratic,” Ricardo Navarro, the head of the environmentalist NGO Salvadoran Center for Appropriate Technology, told the AFP news agency. “He is already taking us down a cliff with his bad ideas that are already affecting the economy with this Bitcoin.” El Salvador, which has used the US dollar for 20 years, became the first country in the world last month to legalise Bitcoin as a national currency, which the government says will help revitalise its struggling economy. Bukele’s apparent joke with his Twitter profile follows an update last month when he changed it to say “Dictator” of El Salvador.

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