El Salvador reels as 6,000 people arrested in unprecedented crackdown Authoritarian populist president Nayib Bukele has suspended rights in state of emergency justified as attack on MS13 gang The Guardian - US · Apr 5, 2022
El Salvador's bitcoin experiment makes tech tourists happy but the locals are not convinced El Salvador's adoption of bitcoin as a national currency is gaining massive support from crypto enthusiasts and "tech bros" around the world. So what do the locals think? ABC News · Apr 3, 2022
Biden official says US will likely see an uptick in asylum requests and immigration LOS ANGELES — Democracy in Central America appears to be on the downslide. Los Angeles Times · Apr 2, 2022
El Salvador boosts jail time for gang members after rash of murders El Salvador's gang lords and their followers will face prison sentences ranging from 20 to 45 years under penal reforms passed by Congress on Wednesday in the wake of 89 registered murders, allegedly by groups like MS-13, over the weekend. Reuters · Mar 31, 2022
El Salvador has day without murder under state of emergency El Salvador experienced its first day without a killing since imposing a state of emergency following a rash of gang violence last weekend The Independent UK · Mar 30, 2022
El Salvador forces encircle neighborhoods in gang crackdown El Salvador’s security forces have intensified their operations against the country’s street gangs with mass arrests, the cordoning off of entire neighborhoods and house-by-house searches under a state of emergency sought by President Nayib Bukele The Independent UK · Mar 29, 2022
El Salvador arrests 600 gang suspects, cuts food for inmates The government of El Salvador has arrested more than 600 gang suspects and ordered reductions in food for inmates, after a wave of killings over the weekend The Independent UK · Mar 28, 2022
El Salvador declares state of emergency as gang murders soar El Salvador’s National Assembly in an early morning session on Sunday approved a state of emergency request made by President Nayib Bukele to tame a wave of gang-related killings over the weekend. Tribune News Service · Mar 27, 2022
El Salvador declares state of emergency over gang murders after 62 killings in one day Wave of bloodshed over weekend believed to be linked to country’s notorious and powerful street gangs The Independent UK · Mar 27, 2022
El Salvador invokes emergency powers after surge in homicides El Salvador's Congress approved on Sunday emergency powers that temporarily suspended some constitutional protections after the Central American country recorded a sharp rise in killings attributed to criminal gangs. Reuters · Mar 27, 2022
El Salvador President Dubs Reports Of Delay In Bitcoin Bonds Issue As 'FUD' Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, appealed to his 3.6 million Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) followers to not spread “Reuters FUD.” Benzinga · Mar 25, 2022
US Lawmakers Want To Investigate El Salvador's Bitcoin Adoption; Bukele Says 'We Will Stand For Freedom' Senators James Risch (R-Idaho), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) introduced the "Accountability for Cryptocurrency in El Salvador (ACES) Act" to investigate the impact of El Salvador's adoption of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: Benzinga · Mar 24, 2022
El Salvador Taps Binance To Help With Bitcoin Adoption: What You Need To Know El Salvador, the first country to adopt Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) as legal tender, is turning to Binance for help in its quest to issue bonds denominated in the apex coin. Benzinga · Mar 24, 2022
Commentary: Democracy is a victim of indifference As President Joe Biden said in his State of the Union address, the ongoing crisis in Ukraine has starkly illustrated “the battle between democracy and autocracy,” and new research from Freedom House underscores just how dire this crisis of global democracy has become. Tribune News Service · Mar 22, 2022
Los Angeles Times · Feb 24, 2022 El Salvador's president buys Bitcoins 'naked,' he boasts. His experiment is costing his nation millions SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Four months into El Salvador's experiment as the first and only country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal currency, the International Monetary Fund had seen enough.
Reuters · Feb 20, 2022 Bukele to propose granting Salvadoran citizenship to foreign investors El Salvador President Nayib Bukele on Sunday said he will send Congress a proposal to grant citizenship to foreigners who invest in the Central American country as well as other initiatives to reduce government hurdles in order to attract investment projects.
Los Angeles Times · Feb 17, 2022 In Latin America's new Cold War, will China lift up autocrats? SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador's president and the Chinese ambassador traded flatteries this month as they broke ground on a new national library, one of a slew of gifts China has promised this small mountainous nation as part of its vigorous quest to gain influence across Central America.
Benzinga · Feb 17, 2022 El Salvador President Takes Shots At Joe Biden As Senate Proposal Questions Central American Country's Bitcoin Adoption El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has taken a dig at U.S.
Reuters · Feb 17, 2022 El Salvador's Bukele tells bitcoin-wary U.S. senators to stay out of internal affairs President Nayib Bukele on Wednesday asked U.S. senators to stay out of El Salvador's "internal affairs" after they called for an investigation into the economic risks the United States faces due to the Central American country's adoption of bitcoin as legal tender.
The Conversation · Feb 3, 2022 'Worthy of a Bond villain': the bizarre history of libertarian attempts to create independent cities Late last year, El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele announced plans to build “Bitcoin City” – a tax-free territory in the country’s east.
Benzinga · Jan 31, 2022 El Salvador's President Predicts 'Gigantic Price Increase' For Bitcoin The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele is going all bullish on Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) despite a recent lull in price action. At the time of publication, Bitcoin was trading at $37,227, down 1.96% in the last 24 hours.
Benzinga · Jan 26, 2022 Edward Snowden, Nayib Bukele And Others Reacts To IMF Wanting El Salvador To Drop Bitcoin: 'Somebody Sounds Nervous' Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden took aim at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for dishing out advice to El Salvador on its use of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) as legal tender.
The Independent UK · Jan 25, 2022 IMF urges El Salvador to drop Bitcoin as legal tender The International Monetary Fund wants El Salvador to drop the highly volatile cryptocurrency Bitcoin as legal tender and strictly regulate the electronic wallet the government has pushed adoption of across the country
Benzinga · Jan 22, 2022 Bitcoin May Be Plunging Hard, But Look Who's Buying The Dip The sell-off seen in the crypto space is continuing into the weekend, and Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), the apex crypto, is no exception.