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 ...
Bitcoin, crypto firms move to El Salvador, but success rides on banking access
Yet even in El Salvador—the world’s Bitcoin trailblazer, which passed its Bitcoin Law in 2021 and has been steadily adding ...
El Salvador Dispatch: The Origins of the Bitcoin Experiment
This article is part of a four-piece series on El Salvador. You can find the previous dispatch, a story on Bitcoin City, here ...
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El Salvador Dispatch: Searching for Bitcoin City, the Modern El Dorado
President Nayib Bukele vowed to build Bitcoin City on the Conchagua volcano. CoinDesk went looking for signs of construction.
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 ...
El Salvador to house minors convicted of organized crime in adult jails
El Salvador's Congress voted on Wednesday to allow minors convicted of crimes linked to organized crime to be housed in the ...
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The Laidback Wonder of El Zonte, El Salvador's Latest Surfer Magnet
The crash and hum of the ocean is everywhere in El Zonte, a small town on the lush Pacific coast of El Salvador about an hour ...
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El Salvador: Yesterday's newspapers, a way to learn about the history of El Salvador in the 19th century
Newspapers have texts and photographs in their pages that endure over time and become a way to know or remember the past history, including political, economic and social events that happened and ...
El Salvador’s offer to take in US deportees and violent criminals is unlike any other migrant deal
El Salvador has offered to take in people deported from the U.S. for entering the country illegally as well as the country’s violent criminals — even if they’re American citizens ...
El Salvador offers to accept deportees and US nationals in outsourcing of US prison system
President Bukele said his country will accept convicted criminals of all nationalities, including US citizens, into its ...
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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 ...