El Salvador Dispatch: How Bitcoin Taught a Nation to Dream
This article is part of a four-piece series on El Salvador. You can find the previous dispatch, a story on El Zonte, ...
Inside El Salvador's notorious CECOT mega-prison, which could soon house deportees from the U.S.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week that President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador had agreed to accept deportees from the U.S. convicted of crimes, and also offered to house incarcerated ...
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El Salvador Dispatch: The Origins of the Bitcoin Experiment
El Zonte inspired Bukele to make bitcoin legal tender in El Salvador. CoinDesk visited the surfing village to see how it’s ...
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Behind El Salvador's prison system that may handle U.S. deported migrants
CBS News' Lilia Luciano got a rare look at El Salvador's prison system after President Nayib Bukele offered to house dangerous deported migrants from the U.S. This comes as President Trump continues ...
El Salvador’s Congress votes to eliminate public campaign financing
Lawmakers in El Salvador have taken advantage of a newly streamlined constitutional reform process to eliminate public ...
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What to know about El Salvador’s mega-prison after Trump deal to send people there
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they ...
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Rubio and Bukele to discuss sending suspected gang members from US to El Salvador
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will discuss the possibility of deporting suspected Tren de Aragua gang members to El Salvador in an upcoming meeting with Salvadorean president Nayib Bukele ...
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Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes who lived in exile in Nicaragua dies at 65
Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal sentences, died late Tuesday (January 21, 2025). He was 65. Nicaragua’s ...
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Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes dies in exile in Nicaragua at age 65
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal sentences, died late Tuesday. He was 65.
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El Salvador buys another 12 Bitcoin for country’s reserve despite IMF deal
Update Jan. 22, 3 am: This article has been updated to include a response from the El Salvador Bitcoin Office. El Salvador has bought 12 Bitcoin for its reserve in the past day, despite an earlier ...
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In El Salvador, Al Suave’s Design Tells A Story Of Change
The air in El Zonte hangs heavy, thick with salt and sun, sticking to your skin like the stories it holds. At 6:17 a.m., surfers are already pulling out of the water, their boards dripping as they ...
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Tether’s move to El Salvador is a win for President Nayib Bukele
On January 13th Tether, the world’s leading stablecoin firm, announced that it had chosen El Salvador as the location of its first physical headquarters. (Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies whose ...