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El Salvador Records 70% Less Murders In 2023

In 2022, the country experienced a staggering 495 murders; however, this number witnessed a significant decline in 2023, reaching a low of only 154 murders.

Latin Times

Bitcoin Surges at the Start of 2024: What Are the Expectations for the Year Ahead?

New ETFs and the halving event will push the cryptocurrency as analysts emphasize the importance of investor education

Latin Times

El Salvador’s Bitcoin ‘Volcano Bond’ could be issued early next year after approval by regulator

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele first announced the Volcano Bond in 2021.

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El Salvador became the first country to accept Bitcoin as legal tender. Now it’s offering citizenship for a $1 million ‘investment’

The Central American nation led by Nayib Bukele is partnering with the controversial stablecoin Tether on the initiative.

Fortune

El Salvador's Bitcoin Investment Sees Over $3M Gains Amid Crypto Rally

Bukele said that it has never been El Salvador's objective to sell its Bitcoin and while he confirmed that they are well aware the crypto asset's price will fluctuate, he underlined that it does not impact the country's long-term strategy.

International Business Times

El Salvador is seeing worst rights abuses since 1980-1992 civil war, Amnesty reports

A report by Amnesty International says El Salvador is experiencing one of the worst human rights crises since the country's 1980-1992 civil war, because of President Nayib Bukele's harsh anti-gang crackdown

The Independent UK

Bitcoin in El Salvador: Bukele Celebrates Profits after BTC Surpasses $42,000

Bukele highlighted the balance as he criticized the media for writing articles when it was in the red. "We have no intention of selling," he said

Latin Times

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Detainees in El Salvador's gang crackdown cite abuse during months in jail

Thousands of detainees swept up in El Salvador's gang crackdown over the past 1 1/2 years have been released from pre-trial detention

The Independent UK

Fed-up Voters Put Latin American Leaders On Thin Ice

Latin American governments are learning not to get too comfortable in office, as disgruntled voters repeatedly topple incumbents, often in favor of outsiders or inexperienced politicians.

International Business Times

Miss Nicaragua Sheynnis Palacios wins Miss Universe crown

Miss Nicaragua, Sheynnis Palacios, has won the Miss Universe competition in El Salvador, the first to wear the crown from her country

The Independent UK

El Salvador's Miss Universe pageant drawing attention at crucial moment for president

The Miss Universe competition hosted by El Salvador is the latest spectacle touted by President Nayib Bukele in his efforts to change the reputation of his historically violence-torn nation

The Independent UK

El Salvador is gradually filling its new mega prison with alleged gang members

With tattoo-covered faces, wearing white shirts and shorts, gang members captured during El Salvador’s state of exception are gradually filling the country’s new mega prison

The Independent UK

Mexican cartels are fifth-largest employers in the country, study finds

Organized crime groups have about 175,000 members and authors say the best way to reduce violence is to cut membership

The Guardian - US

El Salvador's leader, criticized internationally for gang crackdown, tells UN it was the right thing

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has trumpeted the success of his gang crackdown during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly

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Sound of Freedom film producer plots long-shot bid for Mexican presidency

Eduardo Verástegui, who also acts in movie embraced by QAnon followers, files paperwork for 2024 election

The Independent UK

A half-century after Gen. Augusto Pinochet's coup, some in Chile remember the dictatorship fondly

The world remembers Gen. Augusto Pinochet as the dictator whose regime tortured, killed and disappeared 3,065 people in the name of fighting communism

The Independent UK

Member of Panama's national soccer team shot and killed in Colon; 2nd in 6 years

A member of Panama’s national soccer team has been killed after gunmen opened fire on a group of people gathered in the country’s violent port city of Colon

Zenger

El Salvador’s Bitcoin Bet Pays Off As Bonds Skyrocket With 70% Returns

El Salvador president Nayib Bukele's embracing of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) was initially met with skepticism on Wall Street

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The Independent UK

As free press withers in El Salvador, pro-government social media influencers grow in power

An expanding network of social media personalities is amplifying and echoing President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador

The Week

El Salvador’s controversial crackdown on gangs

Human rights groups may be raising the alarm over El Salvador’s brutal crackdown on gang violence, but the policy is winning huge support for the country’s young president both at home and abroad.

Fortune

Binance becomes fully licensed in El Salvador, where 'Philosopher King' Bukele pushed to make Bitcoin legal tender in 2021

Binance and El Salvador are each fighting their own crypto-related battles.

The Guardian - US

El Salvador clears way for mass trials as crackdown on gangs ramps up

Congress passes bill that could allow 900 people to be tried together if they are accused of being in the same criminal group

The Independent UK

El Salvador plans mass trials for those imprisoned in gang crackdown

New rules passed by El Salvador’s congress will allow courts to try accused gang members in group trials, in an effort to expedite tens of thousands of criminal cases for those detained under the country’s crackdown on street gangs

The Independent UK

State Department sanctions 2 former Salvadoran leaders, dozens of officials in Central America

The State Department says it's imposing sanctions on two former Salvadoran presidents and dozens of other officials and judges in Central America

The Independent UK

Honduras wants to build West's only island prison colony and lock gangsters inside

Honduras plans to build the only island prison colony in the Western Hemisphere and send its most-feared gangsters there

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