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 ...
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 ...
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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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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 under-the-radar surf town to catch up on? El Zonte, a mellow enclave on El Salvador's west coast with chic hotels, ...
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El Salvador constitutional amendment sparks international concerns over human rights
Amnesty International on Friday expressed deep concern over the recent amendment to Article 248 of El Salvador's constitution, warning that the change could drastically undermine human rights ...
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What to know about El Salvador’s mega-prison after President Donald Trump’s deal to send people there
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said Monday that they’d struck a deal ...
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 ...